Re: [Help-bash] Filename Expansion: Find Utility vs Bash Shell Pattern Matching

[Chet Ramey]

On 6/17/15 8:01 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 02:41:41PM -0700, Michael Convey wrote:
>>    1. ???Similar to the 'find' utility, d
>>    oes bash use the fnmatch
>>    ???()???
>>    library or some other mechanism for
>>    ??? ???
>>    filename expansion and pattern matching?
> 
> imadev:/var/tmp/bash/bash-4.3$ grep fnmatch *.[ch]
> imadev:/var/tmp/bash/bash-4.3$ grep fnmatch */*.[ch]
> imadev:/var/tmp/bash/bash-4.3$ grep fnmatch */*
> cross-build/cygwin32.cache:ac_cv_func_fnmatch=${ac_cv_func_fnmatch='no'}

Bash uses a function named `strmatch', which is derived from the original
GNU fnmatch and extended to handle Posix matching syntax, extended
globbing operators, and internationalization.

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