The PPT glob Command
This is the home page for the Perl Power
Tools implementation of the standard glob command. Its mission
is life is mostly as a band-aide for broken systems that don't have
proper globbing built in to them.
Current Perl implementations are:
- Here's a
version and
its manpage by Brad Appleton, with
readme. The manpage still documents the
old module, though, not the program.
Baseline documentation: Extremely
early versions of Unix did have an /etc/glob program, but
that bug was fixed long ago. I suggest that the otherwise deplorable
csh (or tcsh) be followed for behaviour. One might
consider a -t flag to support returning textfiles only.