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| <h3 class="section">10.2 Globbing</h3> |
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| <p><a name="index-globbing-852"></a>The archetypal use of wildcards is for matching against the files in a |
| directory, and making a list of all the matches. This is called |
| <dfn>globbing</dfn>. |
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| <p>You could do this using <code>fnmatch</code>, by reading the directory entries |
| one by one and testing each one with <code>fnmatch</code>. But that would be |
| slow (and complex, since you would have to handle subdirectories by |
| hand). |
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| <p>The library provides a function <code>glob</code> to make this particular use |
| of wildcards convenient. <code>glob</code> and the other symbols in this |
| section are declared in <samp><span class="file">glob.h</span></samp>. |
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| <li><a accesskey="1" href="Calling-Glob.html#Calling-Glob">Calling Glob</a>: Basic use of <code>glob</code>. |
| <li><a accesskey="2" href="Flags-for-Globbing.html#Flags-for-Globbing">Flags for Globbing</a>: Flags that enable various options in <code>glob</code>. |
| <li><a accesskey="3" href="More-Flags-for-Globbing.html#More-Flags-for-Globbing">More Flags for Globbing</a>: GNU specific extensions to <code>glob</code>. |
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