[OS X TeX] Regular expressions

Peter Dyballa Peter_Dyballa at Web.DE
Sat May 12 07:16:03 EDT 2007


Am 12.05.2007 um 12:37 schrieb André Bellaïche:

> I thought regular expressions were the same kind of expressions you  
> use in Unix when you type 'rm a*' or 'rm *'

In shell mood it is only kind of file name expansion – why should it  
be more complicated (for the 250 kHz TTL CPU)? And it is nowhere  
documented (i.e. mentioned as a guaranteed feature) that shell uses  
in this case /regular expressions/.


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