Bug#510056: ITP: libfile-wildcard-perl -- Enhanced glob processing
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni <sebastien@aperghis.net>
* Package name : libfile-wildcard-perl
Version : 0.10
Upstream Author : Ivor Williams <ivorw-file-wildcard010 at xemapscom>
* URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/File-Wildcard/
* License : Perl
Programming Lang: Perl
Description : Enhanced glob processing
When looking at how various operating systems do filename wildcard
expansion
(globbing), VMS has a nice syntax which allows expansion and
searching of
whole directory trees. It would be nice if other operating systems had
something like this built in. The best Unix can manage is through the
utility program find.
This module provides this facility to Perl. Whereas native VMS syntax
uses
the ellipsis "...", this will not fit in with POSIX filenames, as ...
is a
valid (though somewhat strange) filename. Instead, the construct
"///" is
used as this cannot syntactically be part of a filename, as you do
not get
three concurrent filename separators with nothing between (three slashes
are used to avoid confusion with //node/path/name syntax).
You don't have to use this syntax, as you can do the splitting
yourself and
pass in an arrayref as your path.
--
Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni
Close the world, txEn eht nepO.
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