[Info-vax] Unix and DCL shells

[Simon Clubley]

On 2024-01-11, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo at nz.invalid> wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Jan 2024 13:52:52 -0000 (UTC), Simon Clubley wrote:
>
>> Fine. Then add the globbing pattern capabilities to the current VMS
>> wildcard lookup APIs without changing anything else. That gives you the
>> same ability to use more powerful pattern matching expressions on VMS
>> without having to change anything else in your code.
>
> I?m not really sure that?s worthwhile. One could argue that the existing 
> VMS wildcard patterns are already equivalent in power (or a bit beyond, in 
> the case of ?...?), based on the corresponding constructs in the filename 
> specs.
>

The main thing missing on VMS is that you can't use a grouping
operator such as [a-d] to restrict the files selected or to select
everyting not in the grouping operator. There's nothing similar
to the {} expansion operator either.

I use that kind of selection criteria all the time on Linux.

Simon.

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