From: Ryan McCue Date: Sat, 12 May 2012 15:46:50 GMT Subject: Re: ls-tree and wildcards Message-ID: <4FAE85EA.3050807@rotorised.com> In-Reply-To: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote: > I don't think it ever does. There's a mention of "patterns" in ls-tree > man page, which is misleading. Aha, I thought this might be the case. Thanks, I'll grep ls-tree then. > A question that might help us understand your use case and give a > better advice, or improve the system: why do you need that? I need to be able to get all files starting with a certain string ("screenshot-" in this case) with certain extensions ("png", "jpg", "jpeg" or "gif" in this case). Passing into grep will do the trick, but a single command is my preferred option if it exists. I don't mind this not existing in git (given that piping into grep will work just as well), but reading "patterns" on the man page made me think it may exist. I think the wording of that should probably be changed to avoid confusion. Thanks for the response. -- Ryan McCue