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resurrect win32 globbing expansion support through File::Glob/bsd_glob as was in PETDANCE/ack-1.96.tar.gz #377

Closed ghost closed 7 years ago

ghost commented 11 years ago

resurrect win32 globbing expansion support through File::Glob/bsd_glob as was in PETDANCE/ack-1.96.tar.gz

maybe also add a note in the docs with a link to the syntax :) PETDANCE/ack-1.96.tar.gz would on win32 glob on filenames

$ ack -inl \* c*d*.*
cdecl.1
cdecl.c
cdgram.y
cdlex.l

$ ack -vinl \* c*d*.*
c++decl.1

$ dir /b
c++decl.1
c++decl.dSYM
cdecl.1
cdecl.c
cdgram.y
cdlex.l
Makefile
README
testset
testset++

$ dir /b c*d*.*
c++decl.1
c++decl.dSYM
cdecl.1
cdecl.c
cdgram.y
cdlex.l

Thanks for listening

petdance commented 7 years ago

Closed and moved to the feature request wiki page. I might look into this for ack 3.