On Thu, 2023-04-13 at 18:27 +0200, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> does anybody know about some command to convert shell globs (shell pat-
> terns) into regular expressions?
>
What exactly are you trying to do? This sounds like an XY problem
(https://xyproblem.info/).
>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
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
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