Re: Globbing versus regular expressions

Ed Morton <mortonspam@gmail.com> writes:

There's an IMO interesting Q&A about globs and regexps, including some
history, at:
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https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/136353/history-of-bash-globbing

Many thanks, very interesting. It essentially expands a little on all
the points brought forward here. There was a nice example that showed
how painful regexes can be for a simple globbing task.

Thanks also to the others who bothered to share their thoughts.

Somehow I expected Plan 9's shell, rc, to have a more consistent
approach, but it also features standard globbing pattern.

Best regards

Axel