Wildcard-specs
VERACSD at usc-isi.arpa
VERACSD at usc-isi.arpa
Fri Sep 26 01:31:52 AEST 1986
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.
If it does, how does one specify this? (Else, why not?.)
(Context this ? arose in: I'm (obviously) learning Unix, and want to grep
all files in a dir's hierarchy.)
Thanks.
-- ck
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