Re: [Caml-list] Wildcard expansion/command line Q#2

[John Prevost <visigoth@cs.cmu.edu>]

>>>>> "jo" == Jens Olsson <jenso@operamail.com> writes:

    jo> Hi again, as I dig more into the code of my program I realize
    jo> that I have some more questions. I just hope these hasn't as
    jo> obvious answers than my previous ones... :)

{...}

    jo> But what happens if I want to go recursive? As I understand
    jo> it, the expansion made by the shell is *not* recursive
    jo> itself. If my wildcard is *.txt I will only get expanded names
    jo> for the current directory but not for any txt files in the
    jo> subdirectories. Is this a desired behaviour?

This is another reason that this is external to programs.  The typical
solution is either to use a shell with a more extended syntax (zsh,
for example) which lets you write "**/foo" to mean "foo in all
subdirectories", or to use the program find possibly with the support
of xargs.  A typical example is:

find . -type f -name \*.deleteme -print0 | xargs -0 rm

If your program needs to do this work itself, it should implement its
own system of globbing, much like find does.

John.
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