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Re: bash "extglob" needs to upgrade at least like zsh "kshglob"


From: Greg Wooledge
Subject: Re: bash "extglob" needs to upgrade at least like zsh "kshglob"
Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2022 08:15:21 -0400

On Sat, Oct 29, 2022 at 04:50:00PM +1100, Martin D Kealey wrote:
> This seems like a good reason to simply translate extglobs into regexes,
> which should run in linear time, rather than put effort into building and
> debugging a parallel implementation.

This isn't straightforward, because of the !(list) feature of extglob.
There's no analogous construct for that in standard regexes.



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