Re: [Help-bash] Filename Expansion: Find Utility vs Bash Shell Pattern Matching

[Chet Ramey]

On 6/17/15 12:40 PM, Michael Convey wrote:
> Chet, thank you. However, I find no reference to strmatch from 'man -K
> strmatch' or from searching the Bash Reference Manual
> (http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.html). From the following
> webpage, it appears that bash may use the GNU C Library's glob()
> function: http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.html
> Thoughts? 

Bash does not use glob().  Bash uses an internal function named strmatch
that is derived from a GNU fnmatch implementation.  It provides
functionality similar to glob() but has extensions, as noted in my
previous message.

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