[OS X TeX] Regular expressions

[Maarten Sneep]

On May 12, 2007, at 12:34, André Bellaïche wrote:

>
> Thanks. So when you type the Unix command   'rm a*'   in Unix to  
> remove all the files whose the name begins with an 'a', your are  
> not using regular expressions, but something quite different.
>

It is known as shell globbing, and is _much_ simpler than regular  
expressions.

Maarten
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