From: paul.winalski@gmail.com (Paul Winalski)
Subject: [TUHS] Regular Expressions (was Re: origin of the name 'glob')
Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2017 17:55:50 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABH=_VTcrKy_vV6=8VEM06VA9zRX74-pvt-fPhgQftKoWCho9Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
On 7/9/17, ron minnich <rminnich at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
> All the DEC-10 and 11 operating systems I used had that wildcard, as well
> as IIRC even the PDP-8, maybe someone can confirm the -8.
>
> It would have been nice had RE's been the standard way to glob files, but,
> that said, when I mention .*\.c to people instead of *.c they don't much
> like it.
So when were REs first designed and implemented? I would imagine that
they came about as a way to extend the old '*' and '?' wildcard
syntax, but that is only a guess.
-Paul W.
next reply other threads:[~2017-07-09 21:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-07-09 21:55 Paul Winalski [this message]
2017-07-09 22:06 ` Steve Johnson
2017-07-09 22:08 ` ron minnich
2017-07-09 22:36 ` Bakul Shah
2017-07-09 23:35 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2017-07-09 23:43 ` Toby Thain
2017-07-10 13:47 ` arnold
2017-07-10 12:38 Noel Chiappa
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