From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 20 16:56:45 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD05716A4CE for ; Sun, 20 Feb 2005 16:56:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: from relay.pair.com (relay00.pair.com [209.68.1.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2823843D1F for ; Sun, 20 Feb 2005 16:56:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from alejandro@varnet.biz) Received: (qmail 67300 invoked from network); 20 Feb 2005 16:56:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ale.varnet.bsd) (unknown) by unknown with SMTP; 20 Feb 2005 16:56:44 -0000 X-pair-Authenticated: 200.115.214.206 Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 13:57:17 -0300 From: Alejandro Pulver To: freebsd-questions Message-ID: <20050220135717.27ab6a75@ale.varnet.bsd> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 0.9.12b (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.3) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Shell file completion X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 16:56:46 -0000 Hello, I was learning regular expressions, and I noticed that the shell has something similar (but it is different from regular expressions). When I type 'echo *', it replaces '*' for all the files/dirs not starting with a '.' (dot). I understand the '*' in regular expressions must be preceded by other thing to match it. So it is behaving like the DOS wildcards. Where is it documented? Thanks and Best Regards, Ale