Wildcard-specs

[Hugh Conner]

In article <4142 at brl-smoke.ARPA> VERACSD at usc-isi.arpa writes:
>Does UNIX support recursive directory-level matching?  i. e. Does it allow one
>to wildcard-specify all files in a dir as well as all files in the dir's
>subdirectories?  cf. the use of "**" in Symbolics' pathnames.

We've had discussions about this at meetings of our Local user group. It is
one feature which we all agree is lacking. Unfortunately we cannot agree on a
neat, workable, solution. Suggestions include using ** as mentioned above,
making * match subdirectories as well (it does in cpio), among others. I'd
be interested to know if anyone has other solutions, and if anyone has actually
implemented it.
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