Re: lynx-dev [PATCH] install-help on OS/2

[David Combs]

On Tue, Oct 12, 1999 at 11:46:16AM -0400, Larry W. Virden wrote:
> $ /bin/sh
> lwv26awu (!) $ case "/tmp" in
> > /[a-zA-Z]* ) echo "Found" ;;
> > * ) echo "Not found" ;;
> > esac
> Found
> 
> 
> I don't remember a time when I couldn't use regular expressions like
> this in a bourne shell - been writing bourne shells since ... umm ...

That's not a regex, I believe; it's a "glob", the kind of
expression you can use for args to ls, etc.  For generating
(or picking out) FILE names (and ONLY file names).

At least I believe what it is.

David