Shell file completion

[Alejandro Pulver]

Hello,

I was learning regular expressions, and I noticed that the shell has something similar (but it is different from regular expressions).

When I type 'echo *', it replaces '*' for all the files/dirs not starting with a '.' (dot).

I understand the '*' in regular expressions must be preceded by other thing to match it.

So it is behaving like the DOS wildcards.

Where is it documented?

Thanks and Best Regards,
Ale

[Bill Moran]

[Please wrap your lines around 72 chars or so]

Alejandro Pulver <alejandro@varnet.biz> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I was learning regular expressions, and I noticed that the shell has
> something similar (but it is different from regular expressions).
>
> When I type 'echo *', it replaces '*' for all the files/dirs not starting
> with a '.' (dot).
>
> I understand the '*' in regular expressions must be preceded by other
> thing to match it.
>
> So it is behaving like the DOS wildcards.

That's funny. More like "DOS wildcards seem to mimic this".

> Where is it documented?

'man sh' - the section on "Shell Patterns".

--
Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
[url]http://www.potentialtech.com[/url]

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[Alejandro Pulver]

On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 12:20:01 -0500
Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> wrote:

>
> [Please wrap your lines around 72 chars or so]
>

I am using Sylpheed-Claws, and it appears to be wrapping at 78 characters. But the option 'Smart Wrapping' was set and is marked as *EXPERIMENTAL*. So I turned it off and change the wrapping to 72 characters.

> Alejandro Pulver <alejandro@varnet.biz> wrote:

> > Hello,
> >
> > I was learning regular expressions, and I noticed that the shell has
> > something similar (but it is different from regular expressions).
> >
> > When I type 'echo *', it replaces '*' for all the files/dirs not starting
> > with a '.' (dot).
> >
> > I understand the '*' in regular expressions must be preceded by other
> > thing to match it.
> >
> > So it is behaving like the DOS wildcards.

>
> That's funny. More like "DOS wildcards seem to mimic this".
>

I agree.

> > Where is it documented?

>
> 'man sh' - the section on "Shell Patterns".
>
> --
> Bill Moran
> Potential Technologies
> [url]http://www.potentialtech.com[/url]
>

Thank you.

Best Regards,
Ale