RE: Globbing and EAs

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 12:55, Bosshard Raphael, bosshrap wrote:
> Globbing is the process of expanding wildcard patterns.
> /home/tom* --> /home/tomas, /home/tomtom, /home/tomi 
> /home/*el --> /home/daniel, /home/michael
> 
> It's provided through glob.h but since I want to use gnome-vfs for portability I was wondering if a similar feature is going to be included in gnome-vfs.

There is no such plans. globbing is basically a string operation, and
doesn't fit into gnome-vfs as such.

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