From: Alain Frisch <frisch@clipper.ens.fr>
To: Jens Olsson <jenso@operamail.com>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Wildcard expansion/command line Q#2
Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 18:01:03 +0200 (MET DST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.44.0205141755100.1359-100000@clipper.ens.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020514143955.29190.qmail@operamail.com>
On Tue, 14 May 2002, Jens Olsson wrote:
> 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?
This is a shell related question; for instance, under zsh, you can
use **/*.txt for recursive expansion.
-- Alain
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2002-05-14 14:39 Jens Olsson
2002-05-14 16:01 ` Alain Frisch [this message]
2002-05-14 16:19 ` John Prevost
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