[Info-vax] Unix and DCL shells

[Dave Froble]

On 1/12/2024 8:21 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> 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.
>

Maybe you do, but, in the past I've done the same on VMS, and more.

Now, to be specific, I read the above to be select filenames beginning with the 
letters a thru d.  Is that correct?

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