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Date: | 2002-05-14 (16:01) |
From: | Alain Frisch <frisch@c...> |
Subject: | Re: [Caml-list] Wildcard expansion/command line Q#2 |
On Tue, 14 May 2002, Jens Olsson wrote: > as I dig more into the code of my program I realize that I have some > more questions. I just hope these hasn't as obvious answers than my > previous ones... :) > > Now, I know the shell expands any wildcard for my program, resulting in > a argv array with all the expanded filenames in the given directory. > Allright, nice and neat. I can deal with that. > > But what happens if I want to go recursive? As I understand it, the > expansion made by the shell is *not* recursive itself. If my wildcard is > *.txt I will only get expanded names for the current directory but not > for any txt files in the subdirectories. Is this a desired behaviour? This is a shell related question; for instance, under zsh, you can use **/*.txt for recursive expansion. -- Alain ------------------- 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