I feel old! I never knew this existed; probably because my Unix shell experience was mostly built in the early 90s and zsh was not often used or distributed in large academic installations at the time; I believe ksh cost a licensing fee as well, leaving us plebes hoping for tcsh (ibm usually had this available) or bash (elsewhere), and apparently the * syntax was turned off by default for most of these.
An interesting side note in the blog post is the back and forth over whether to follow symlinks - the accepted answer is currently ‘no’.
Since you can hard link a directory in posix, I wonder why the back and forth and why the consensus. I mean some consensus is helpful in general, but I wonder why this way.
raphman•2mo ago
Dito. I 'grew up' with Bash in the early 2000s and never knew about the globstar. I an pretty sure that I never encountered it in any scripts or tutorials - otherwise I'd certainly have looked it up.
SuperNinKenDo•2mo ago
Ironically (at two levels) I learned about globstar through PowerShell. Why is this ironic on two levels? Because I discovered it while researching the best way to perform a recursion in a specific situation and ran into a bunch of threads of people bemoaning globstar's absence from pwsh. So, now I know about its presence elsewhere.
Onavo•2mo ago
The roots of the glob, the kleene star, actually come from a formalization of neural networks.
vessenes•2mo ago
An interesting side note in the blog post is the back and forth over whether to follow symlinks - the accepted answer is currently ‘no’.
Since you can hard link a directory in posix, I wonder why the back and forth and why the consensus. I mean some consensus is helpful in general, but I wonder why this way.
raphman•2mo ago
SuperNinKenDo•2mo ago