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In-Reply-To: <19980417230030.A10873@math.fu-berlin.de> from Sven Guckes at "Apr 17, 98 11:00:30 pm"
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Thus Spake Sven Guckes:
> Quoting Mark Borges (mdb@cdc.noaa.gov):
> > >    $ echo **/*~*.[Gg][Ii][Ff]|[bB][mM][pP]|[jJ][pP][gG]
> > Close -- you forgot the parens:
> >     $ echo **/*~*.([Gg][Ii][Ff]|[bB][mM][pP]|[jJ][pP][gG])
> > I think you'll also have to put `jpeg' and it's case variant as well.
> 
> You mean
>       $ echo **/*~*.([Gg][Ii][Ff]|[bB][mM][pP]|[jJ][pP][gG]|[jJ][pP][eE][gG])
> 
> This is getting "out of hand".  :-(
> 
> > There may be an equivalent for `jpe?g', but I don't see it offhand.
> 
> Anyone?
> 
> > SG> I'd rather be using something like this:
> > SG>    $ echo **/*~(*.[bmp|gif|jpeg|jpg]/i)
> > SG> .. where "/i" means "case insensitive".
> > Sure. perl -e ''. ;-).
> 
> So - perl has better regexpr than the zsh here?
> 
> Sven
> 

I've actually been tinkering with the idea of embedding a Perl
interpreter inside ZSH but I got stumped when it came time to
think about sharing data (i.e. variables and such).

Anyone care to assist in this endeavor??  :-)

Tim.

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