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Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 17:31:35 -0300
From: Alejandro Pulver <alejandro@varnet.biz>
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On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 12:20:01 -0500
Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> wrote:

> 
> [Please wrap your lines around 72 chars or so]
>

I am using Sylpheed-Claws, and it appears to be wrapping at 78 characters. But the option 'Smart Wrapping' was set and is marked as *EXPERIMENTAL*. So I turned it off and change the wrapping to 72 characters.
 
> Alejandro Pulver <alejandro@varnet.biz> wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I was learning regular expressions, and I noticed that the shell has
> > something similar (but it is different from regular expressions).
> > 
> > When I type 'echo *', it replaces '*' for all the files/dirs not starting
> > with a '.' (dot).
> > 
> > I understand the '*' in regular expressions must be preceded by other
> > thing to match it.
> > 
> > So it is behaving like the DOS wildcards.
> 
> That's funny.  More like "DOS wildcards seem to mimic this".
> 

I agree.

> > Where is it documented?
> 
> 'man sh' - the section on "Shell Patterns".
> 
> -- 
> Bill Moran
> Potential Technologies
> http://www.potentialtech.com
> 

Thank you.

Best Regards,
Ale