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

[Eric Blake]

On 06/19/2015 06:12 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 02:18:06PM -0700, Michael Convey wrote:
>> Isn't globbing narrow enough that a single library could be
>> designed/extended/modularized to cover all desired features?
> 
> Assume for the moment that this is true.  Today, you write a brand new
> library function that does every kind of globbing currently used in
> every application on the planet, from VMS to MS-DOS to Unix, in every
> language from C to Perl to Python to Tcl to zsh to ....  And somehow
> you manage to convince thousands of powerful developers to throw away
> their individually customized pattern matching code and use yours.
> 
> Tomorrow, someone will want another feature added to their shell.  So
> they will introduce another option, or a syntax change, or whatever.
> Then pretty soon we'll be right back to where we were before your
> theoretical unification.

Unless, of course, they add the new feature to the grand unified
library, for all clients of the shared library to pick up automatically.

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