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Date: | 2002-05-14 (17:23) |
From: | John Prevost <visigoth@c...> |
Subject: | Re: [Caml-list] Wildcard expansion/command line Q#2 |
>>>>> "jo" == Jens Olsson <jenso@operamail.com> writes: jo> Hi again, as I dig more into the code of my program I realize jo> that I have some more questions. I just hope these hasn't as jo> obvious answers than my previous ones... :) {...} jo> But what happens if I want to go recursive? As I understand jo> it, the expansion made by the shell is *not* recursive jo> itself. If my wildcard is *.txt I will only get expanded names jo> for the current directory but not for any txt files in the jo> subdirectories. Is this a desired behaviour? This is another reason that this is external to programs. The typical solution is either to use a shell with a more extended syntax (zsh, for example) which lets you write "**/foo" to mean "foo in all subdirectories", or to use the program find possibly with the support of xargs. A typical example is: find . -type f -name \*.deleteme -print0 | xargs -0 rm If your program needs to do this work itself, it should implement its own system of globbing, much like find does. John. ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners