10 Jul
2017
10 Jul
'17
3:55 a.m.
On 7/9/17, ron minnich <rminnich(a)gmail.com> wrote:
All the
DEC-10 and 11 operating systems I used had that wildcard, as well
as IIRC even the PDP-8, maybe someone can confirm the -8.
It would have been nice had RE's been the standard way to glob files, but,
that said, when I mention .*\.c to people instead of *.c they don't much
like it.
So when were REs first designed and implemented? I would imagine that
they came about as a way to extend the old '*' and '?' wildcard
syntax, but that is only a guess.
-Paul W.