globbing

How do I get a list of files in c# from a directory path which contains wildcards?

Given a path c:\someFolder\**\*.exe. How can I get a list of files using this directory path. I know that one could use Directory.GetFiles(directoryPath) but this only works when there are no wildcard characters in directoryPath. ...

Finding repetition by Vim's Regex and globbing

How can you find the repetiting sequences of at least 30 numbers? Sample of the data 2.3758542141230068337129840546697038724373576309794988610478359908883826879271070615034168564920273348519362186788154897494305239179954441913439635535307517084282460136674259681093394077448747152619589977220956719817767653758542141230068337129840546697...

shell script ls globbing question

Hi I am trying to use: ls -la *randomString* in my shell script to list out all the files and directories that contain a substring: "randomString" everything works fine except when it encounter a directories that matches the substring, when it does it will give me something like this: (lets say the directory name was "TTrandomStringTT...

How can I use a variable's value as a glob pattern in Perl?

In Perl, you can get a list of files that match a pattern: my @list = <*.txt>; print "@list"; Now, I'd like to pass the pattern as a variable (because it's passed into a function). But that doesn't work: sub ProcessFiles { my ($pattern) = @_; my @list = <$pattern>; print "@list"; } readline() on unopened filehandle at ... ...

Efficient mass string search problem.

The Problem: A large static list of strings is provided. A pattern string comprised of data and wildcard elements (* and ?). The idea is to return all the strings that match the pattern - simple enough. Current Solution: I'm currently using a linear approach of scanning the large list and globbing each entry against the pattern. My Que...

User oriented regex library for java

Hello, I'm looking for a library that could perform "easy" pattern matching, a kind of pattern that can be exposed via GUI to users. It should define a simple matching syntax like * matches any char and alike. In other words, I want to do glob (globbing) like sun's implemented logic http://openjdk.java.net/projects/nio/javadoc/java/n...

problem with globbing patterns in selenium

1) "glob:at row [0-9]" does not match "at row 7" 2) "glob:at row *" does match "at row 7" Why does "glob:at row [0-9]" not match "at row 7"? How do I fix it? ...

Ignoring a directory chain in git?

I need to ignore the following. In paths like /a/b/c/d/e/f/g, I need to ignore /d/e/f/g. I also need to be able to ignore every place /d/e/f/g appears beneath a. I tried d/e/f/g, but that did not work. Thoughts? ...

bash filename globbing - operate on files starting with capital

Hi, Lets say I have a folder with the following jpeg-files: adfjhu.jpg Afgjo.jpg Bdfji.jpg bkdfjhru.jpg Cdfgj.jpg cfgir.jpg Ddfgjr.jpg dfgjrr.jpg How do I remove or list the files that starts with a capital? This can be solved with a combination of find, grep and xargs. But it is possible with normal file-globbing/pattern m...

Is there a bash equivalent to zsh's file-type globbing?

In zsh you can qualify globs with file type assertions e.g. *(/) matches only directories, *(.) only normal files, is there a way to do the same thing in bash without resorting to find? ...

Mac OS X - bash default pathname expansion or bug

I'm trying to run the following line of script in bash on Mac OS X 10.6.4 (from this question): $ export EDITOR='mvim -f -c "au VimLeave * !open -a Terminal"' Alas, what I get is something unexpected: $ echo $EDITOR mvim -f -c "au VimLeave Desktop Documents Downloads Library Movies Music Pictures Public Sites bin !open -a Terminal" ...