EshellGlobbing

Globbing in eshell

With zsh or eshell you can use **/*.[ch] to expand into a list of all files matching *.[ch].

And so much more.

Normal globbing

*.c

All files ending in .c

?.c

Any single character followed by .c

[a-f]*.c

Any file beginning a-f followed by .c

Extended globbing

a#.c

A C file named by zero or more ‘a’ characters

a##.c

A C file named by one or more a characters

Recursive globbing

*/*.c

All C files in all subdirectories

*/CVS/Root

All CVS/Root files

Predicated globbing

e*(*)

All executable files beginning with e

*/*(@)

All symbolic links (searched recursively)

*/*(a+30)

All files not accessed in the last 30 days

Filtered globbing

*.c(:U)

All C filenames in uppercase

All of these features are supported by both zsh[1] and Eshell. In fact, Eshell was implemented in terms of the zsh 4.0 InfoMode manual, so I recommend reading there. – JohnWiegley

Lisp ties

Further, Eshell allows for Lisp ties in to the predication and filtering rules:

*.c('file-writable-p)

Lispy way of doing *.c(w)

*.c(|upcase)

Lispy way of doing *.c(:U)

See also:

• M-x eshell-display-predicate-help
• M-x eshell-display-modifier-help

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