[net.micro.6809] Wild Cards in OS-9 file names?

knudsen@ihnss.UUCP (10/17/83)

I understand that, unlike UN*X, OS-9 does not allow file names
to contain wild card chracters like ? for any one char or * for
any number (incl zero) of any chars.  Soooo, you can't type:
	dir *.c
to locate all your C files on the current directory.
Now--has any outfit like Frank Hogg or whatever come out with
an add-on patch to add these valuable features to the shell?
I realize that these functions are non-trivial to implement;
in fact, the full UN*X regular expression search is MS in CS
thesis-level algorithm.  But anything would help.... mike k

sjt@sb6.UUCP (SIDNEY THOMPSON) (10/18/83)

 You are correct about there not being any wild cards in OS9.
 There is one program (DSAVE) which will generate a file of the
 current and all lower directorys of the form:
 copy /dir/file  file
 you then chd to the directory to which you wish to place the files
 and then execute the file generated by dsave.
 I have used this file and a good editor (ie not the OS9 edit) to
 globaly change the copy to del or anything else you may wish to do.
 All in all this is a real pain.

 Also you can't copy a file to a directory if the file name already
 exist without first deleting the original file as a seperate function.

 Sidney Thompson
 sb1!sb6!sjt
 24-r-77 sbc
 Atlanta, Ga.