Re: [PATCH] Ignore file filter

[David Greaves <david@dgreaves.com>]

Petr Baudis wrote:

>Dear diary, on Sat, May 14, 2005 at 10:28:24AM CEST, I got a letter
>where David Greaves <david@dgreaves.com> told me that...
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>>Also I don't think cg-Xlib should be doing arg handling.
>>As an include it should provide an arg handling function that the
>>scripts call.
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>I'd prefer the few and scattered users which don't want arg handling to
>explicitly set some magic variable before calling cg-Xlib rather than
>adding the arg parser function call everywhere else.
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OK

>>>>	    if [[ $file =~ $patt ]]; then
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>>>I'm sorry but this is really nothing my bash-2.05.0(1)-release supports.
>>>We're already bash-only, but further reducing that to bash3 really won't
>>>work. I *might* get convinced to add some bash2+-only feature, but only
>>>if you'll be really good at explaining that it makes sense.
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>>OK
>>I don't know how to do that.
>>I was actually aiming for glob matching when I came upon this in the
>>manpage.
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>Ok, so what's the outcome? Are you going to stop at this point, or will
>you change the scripts so that they use the glob list?
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Well, Junio solved that for me - I'll gather the comments and resubmit.

David

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