29 Sep
2009
29 Sep
'09
6:32 p.m.
On Sep 29, 2009, at 5:20 PM, Robert Goldman wrote:
james anderson wrote:
On 2009-09-29, at 16:09 , Robert Goldman wrote:
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Possible happy compromise: allow a convention like
/path/to/recursive/directory//:/another/path
to specify when you want recursion in the variable?
That works for the shell variable, which is a string; not sure how to mark the corresponding CL pathname object.
how about "**". as in,
/path/to/recursive/directory/**/:/another/path/
WFM. Is there any chance that this choice would cause awkwardness with the shell's parsing?
Well of course: you will have to quote the path or escape the stars. But substituting the star with another character is even less tasty.
Allow "*" for all the subdirectories (not recursive) too.
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