Re: Globbing file name match function?

[Andreas Schwab]

On Jun 05 2022, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:

> I've been poking around for a couple of minutes to see whether we have a
> function to list files matching a regexp a la how a shell matches them.
> That is:
>
> $ ls ~/src/emacs/*/lisp/abbrev.el
> /home/larsi/src/emacs/27.1/lisp/abbrev.el
> /home/larsi/src/emacs/bisect/lisp/abbrev.el
> /home/larsi/src/emacs/emacs-28/lisp/abbrev.el
> /home/larsi/src/emacs/foo/lisp/abbrev.el
> ...
>
> This is with a glob, but ideally you'd be able to drop in a regexp
> anywhere in the file name.  Do we have that anywhere in Emacs?

There is file-expand-wildcards.

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