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I agree on the concept being brilliant, especially as it gives easy access to use regex instead of glob, which is rather clumsy to do in normal bash. It also p
by wodenokoto 6y ago
I agree on the concept being brilliant, especially as it gives easy access to use regex instead of glob, which is rather clumsy to do in normal bash.
It also prevents a lot of accidental globbing.
I would need to use it for a while to decide if the extra syntax outweighs those benefits, but I like the way of thinking!
- Pxtl 6y agoThe worst "accidental glob" is Windows Powershell, where square-brackets in filenames means you can't pipe from "ls" into other cmdlets because it interprets the square-brackets as filter commands even when they read them from the filesystem itself.