[CMake] Need help with GLOB expression

[Philip Lowman]

On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 11:02 PM, Bill Hoffman <bill.hoffman at kitware.com>wrote:

> Philip Lowman wrote:
>
>         I'll put in the feature request for {} and at some point in the
>>        future it can be addressed.
>>
>>    Can someone point me to a definition of what glob is supposed to
>>    have in it?  It seems to vary from php glob, perl glob, various
>>    different shell globs, etc.  I can not seem to find a definitive
>>    answer as to what a glob function is supposed to do, other than it
>>    is something shy of a regular expression.  The CMake one seems to do
>>    about the same as a bash shell as far as I can tell.
>>
>>
>> Here is bash's glob support
>> http://www.faqs.org/docs/abs/HTML/globbingref.html
>>
>> MS-Dos and Windows are limited to '*' and '?'
>>
>> Not sure about everyone else.  If CMake can support all of what Bash
>> supports that probably would be above and beyond the call of duty.
>>
>>
> So, I see no mention of {} in bash?


It's on that page.

 bash$ *ls -l {b*,c*,*est*}*
 -rw-rw-r--    1 bozo  bozo         0 Aug  6 18:42 b.1
 -rw-rw-r--    1 bozo  bozo         0 Aug  6 18:42 c.1
 -rw-rw-r--    1 bozo  bozo       758 Jul 30 09:02 test1.txt

-- 
Philip Lowman
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