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

[Michael Convey]

Chet and Greg, thanks for your follow-up explanations and additional links.
I will read them and learn each program's features one-by-one as suggested,
while still trying to maintain a big picture view. I find the lack of
standardization unnecessarily complex and frustrating. I believe this kind
of complexity is why many people become exasperated and give up on Linux. I
will persevere, but I hope standardization will prevail in the long run.

On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 11:21 AM, Chet Ramey <address@hidden> wrote:

> 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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>                  ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
> Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU    address@hidden
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>