Re: Wildcards, ant/zsh style

Stefan Arentz wrote:

> This is more a feature request than a question I guess :)
> 
> In zsh and ant (the java build tool) i can specify files like this:
> 
>   **/*.c
> 
> Find all *.c files, recursive.
> 
> Which is very useful for recipies like this:
> 
> distclean:
> 	:del {quiet} {force} **/*~ **/#*
> 
> For which we now must do:
> 
> distclean:
> 	:tree . {filename = .*~}
> 		:delete {quiet} $name
> 
> Any change of this kind of recursive globbing in Aap?

As you mentioned it's already possible with the ":tree" command.  I
don't plan to change the wildcard expansion, at least not soon.

Is there a Python function for this kind of wildcard expansion?

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