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Re: Source C-code for shell (bash) that processes an asterisk as a special symbol
- From: Igor Peshansky <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: Alex Vinokur <alexvn at users dot sourceforge dot net>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 14:00:46 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: Source C-code for shell (bash) that processes an asterisk as a special symbol
- References: <e54pm8$egk$1@sea.gmane.org>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Thu, 25 May 2006, Alex Vinokur wrote:
> We have mini-shell that doesn't process an asterisk '*' as a special
> symbol. Is there any free source C-code on Cygwin that implements that
> processing?
If I understand your question correctly, there are at least 4 different
sources for shells, plus various other programs (e.g., make). What you're
looking for is called "wildcard processing". Beware of licensing issues,
though.
Igor
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