Re: Wildcards, ant/zsh style

Tim Hemel wrote:

> This is what I wrote to overcome the problem:
> 
> :python
> 	def rlist(dir, pattern = r'.*', exclude = r'^$'):
> 		"""recursively list all files in dir, matching the regexp
> 		pattern. Dirs that match the regexp exclude will not be
> 		traversed. The resulting filenames are relative to dir, i.e.
> 		dir will have to be prefixed."""

[...]

> You can use it like this:
> 
> WebFiles = `rlist('website', '.*', '^(.*/)?CVS$')`
> 
> This will get all files that match anything (.*) but it will exclude CVS
> directories. Syntax for the patterns is regexp.

Wouldn't these Aap commands do the same:

	files =
	:tree website {filename = .*} {skipdir = CVS}
		files += $name

The advantage of :tree is that it offers more options and can be used
for other purposes (e.g. execute an arbitrary command for each match).

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