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

[Michael Convey]

Chet, thank you. However, I find no reference to strmatch from 'man -K
strmatch' or from searching the Bash Reference Manual (
http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.html). From the following
webpage, it appears that bash may use the GNU C Library's glob() function:
http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.html
Thoughts?

On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 5:21 AM, Chet Ramey <address@hidden> wrote:

> 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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