Re: GREP in Akua's "the entries in"
Re: GREP in Akua's "the entries in"
- Subject: Re: GREP in Akua's "the entries in"
- From: Godot <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2001 16:30:17 -0400
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I'm trying to figure out how to format the search string in Akua Sweets'
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"the entries in" command to select all files with an asterisk in their
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names. From the dictionary/documentation, it looked like it should be
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"*/**", wildcard-real asterisk-wild card. That doesn't do it. Does
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anyone know what would? TIA.
The quick answer: "***"
The long answer: Although that would seem somewhat logical, the '*' command
already takes the next character as a "literal", making the "/" superfluous.
You are saying any characters until an asterisk and then any characters
until end-of-line.
Thus things like "*[abc]*" don't work. It is a low-power-high-speed-68K
assembly match from 1989 :)
Cheers,
Greg