From: Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>
Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 14:24:22 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Ignore file filter
Message-ID: <20050514142421.GG3905@pasky.ji.cz>
In-Reply-To: <7vy8ai2nb6.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Dear diary, on Sat, May 14, 2005 at 11:01:49AM CEST, I got a letter
where Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> told me that...
> >>>>> "DG" == David Greaves <david@dgreaves.com> writes:
> 
> >>> if [[ $file =~ $patt ]]; then
> >> 
> >> I'm sorry but this is really nothing my bash-2.05.0(1)-release supports.
> DG> OK
> DG> I don't know how to do that.
> 
> Is that regexp or shell glob?  If regexp, expr is your friend,
> like this:
> 
>     if expr "$file" : "$patt" >/dev/null; then

Oh, this looks nice. I didn't know expr can do that. :-)

Still, I'd prefer the old-fashioned globs as primary matching mechanism.

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