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

[Chet Ramey]

On 6/17/15 12:40 PM, Michael Convey wrote:
> 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? 

If you are interested in the differences between pathname expansion and
how `find' matches names, you might start with the Posix descriptions of
both:

http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V3_chap02.html#tag_18_13
and
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/find.html#tag_20_47

You'll find (ha) that `find' references the shell's pattern matching
with a specific set of exceptions that are used only for expansion.

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