On Fri, 2004-03-12 at 09:42 +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote: > 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. From an outsiders point of view I think maybe the globbing spoken of above relates to getting a virtual directory containing matching results. Which if EA was indexable could allow much more than just doing pcre(3) expressions manually on the VFS. -- Blogtackular http://advogato.org/person/monkeyiq/
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