8 Oct
2020
8 Oct
'20
6:33 a.m.
On Thu, Oct 08, 2020 at 11:18:38AM +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote:
On Wed, 7 Oct 2020, George Michaelson wrote:
I wrote the same thing and strangely enough, I also used = as a * replacement.
Possibly wrongly, I judge glob by things like how
simple it is, to use
it doing "rename *.foo to *.bar" or "find filenames with spaces in
them, and rename to be - separated"
John "Iron bar" Mackin (may he rest in peace) wrote a shell script
"mved"
that implemented PIP-like globs along the lines of "mved =.foo =.bar". I
still have it somewhere, but it probably needs some work on it now; it was
really handy for things like "mved =.c =c.old". From 1987 folks:
http://mcvoy.com/lm/move.shar