[Controversial Patch for Bug 18180] kfind sloppy match for simple search strings

[Martin Konold]

On Friday 19 July 2002 11:40 pm, Klas Kalass wrote:

Hi,

> Why do you think that k?ind* is anythingnonmatching*? We are not talking
> about regular expressions but about shell - style wildcards. The meaning of
> "?" is "any one" character, not "one or none of the previous". So k?ind
> matches kfind wonderfully and kfind* matches kfind.cpp wonderfully.
> But this has nothing to do with my proposed patch because it is the current
> behaviour of bash, kfind and many other tools using wildcards.

I stand corrected! Thanks!

Yours,
--martin
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Dipl.-Phys. Martin Konold
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