Greetings, does anybody know about some command to convert shell globs (shell pat- terns) into regular expressions? Back in the old Unix days there was a "glob" command, but "e-files" only turns up a GNU library.
I am aware of Python's "fnmatch.translate()" function, but this -- of course -- returns a Python style regular expression which I can't use together with "grep" or "gawk". So using this function would require moving and converting the "grep" and "gawk" specific code from my Shell script into a separate Python script. This would be doable, if neces- sary, but I would prefer staying with just my Shell script. Any pointers heartily welcome :-) Sincerely, Rainer
