>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.
Would one of the functions in dev-perl/Text-Glob do what you need? DaveF > >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 >
