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RegEx glob mode?

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From: "E. Larry Lidz" <ellidz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RegEx glob mode?
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 20:48:38 -0600
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Something that I'd love to see in a shell is a mode to replace normal
globbing with regex matching. So that things like:

ls (foo|bar)?baz.*

would work.

I'm sure it'd confuse a lot of people (why doesn't ls foo* match foobaz?)
but as an option, I think it'd be extremely popular, particularly for
certain shell scripts...

[cc me with discussion? I'm not on the list.]

-Larry

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