From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id RAA23893; Tue, 14 May 2002 17:41:24 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: (from weis@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id RAA23888 for caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr; Tue, 14 May 2002 17:41:23 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA21676 for ; Tue, 14 May 2002 16:40:04 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from mta1-3.us4.outblaze.com (205-158-62-44.outblaze.com [205.158.62.44]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g4EEe3n15275 for ; Tue, 14 May 2002 16:40:03 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from ws4-4.us4.outblaze.com (205-158-62-105.outblaze.com [205.158.62.105]) by mta1-3.us4.outblaze.com (8.12.3/8.12.3/us4-srs) with SMTP id g4EEdtof032271 for ; Tue, 14 May 2002 14:39:55 GMT Received: (qmail 29204 invoked by uid 1001); 14 May 2002 14:39:55 -0000 Message-ID: <20020514143955.29190.qmail@operamail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MIME-tools 5.41 (Entity 5.404) Received: from [213.67.81.199] by ws4-4.us4.outblaze.com with http for jenso@operamail.com; Tue, 14 May 2002 15:39:54 +0100 From: "Jens Olsson" To: caml-list@inria.fr Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 15:39:54 +0100 Subject: [Caml-list] Wildcard expansion/command line Q#2 X-Originating-Ip: 213.67.81.199 X-Originating-Server: ws4-4.us4.outblaze.com Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Hi again, as I dig more into the code of my program I realize that I have some more questions. I just hope these hasn't as obvious answers than my previous ones... :) Now, I know the shell expands any wildcard for my program, resulting in a argv array with all the expanded filenames in the given directory. Allright, nice and neat. I can deal with that. But what happens if I want to go recursive? As I understand it, the expansion made by the shell is *not* recursive itself. If my wildcard is *.txt I will only get expanded names for the current directory but not for any txt files in the subdirectories. Is this a desired behaviour? I mean, one could interpret the wildcard *.txt as ./*.txt. In that case, maybe recursive action is not logical - as the complete path of the files in any subdirectories do not match the wildcard. If this is the case I find it locical and I only have to implement my program to deal with either one or more files given by the user directly or by shell expansion. But if the wildcard *.txt together with a recurse flag means "all txt files in this and any subdirectory" I am a bit puzzled - what do I do with subdirectories? Do I have to open them manually and let the shell expand them too, using a globbing feature (if it works that way)? And if so, is this supported by Ocaml? I do not believe in this second alternative. It seems so awkward and so not in harmony with the idea of shell expansion of wildcards. But maybe I am missing something here? I do not know if I make sense... but I guess that a little bit more examination of tools similar to the one I write might give some answers. Or maybe someone of you have it right away. I'd be more than happy to elaborate my thoughts if nescessary. Jens -- Powered by Outblaze ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners