Title:        glob
Version:      1.0
Submitted:    Dec 1 1986
Author:       seismo!mcvax!guido (Guido van Rossum)
Submittor:    seismo!mcvax!guido (Guido van Rossum)
Description:  'Globbing' library routine

[  A few items: 1) If you use csh, you have to invoke the test program
   at "./glob"; 2) A comment in the code says [...] is not implemented;
   it is; 3) As the README says, some sites will have to add -Dindex=strchr
   to the CFLAGS variable in the Makefile; 4) This uses the opendir()
   family of routines.  --r$ ]

Glob -- expand meta-characters in file names -- by Guido van Rossum

This is a filename 'globbing' routine that I wrote.  Besides expanding
*, ? and [...] exactly like sh(1), it also replaces initial ~ or ~user
by user's home directory, replaces initial $var by the contents of the
environment variable, and has a quoting mechanism whereby any of the
magic characters can be quoted by '\' (including '\' itself).

It is really intended for inclusion in some larger program, but there is
a small test program that expands patterns given as arguments.

You should have received the following files:

       README          this file
       glob.c          the code
       main.c          test program
       glob.3          manual page
       Makefile        make file

Portability issues: I have only been able to test it on a VAX running
4.3-beta, but I believe it can be ported to anything that supports
opendir, readdir and closedir.  If you don't have index, substitute
strchr using the -D flag to the C compiler.  The program passes lint
except for the usual complaints about malloc and strcpy.

This software is copyright (c) 1986 by Stichting Mathematisch Centrum.
You may use, modify and copy it, provided this notice is present in all
modified or unmodified copies, and provided you don't make money for it.

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