[SAGA-RG] URLs and wildcards

[Andre Merzky]

Quoting [Ceriel Jacobs] (Dec 04 2007):
> 
> Andre Merzky wrote:
> >Quoting [Ceriel Jacobs] (Dec 03 2007):
> >>>B: why the limitation to relative path names?
> >>Not really needed, indeed, but conceptually, wildcard expansion operates
> >>on a directory, and we are talking about methods on directories here.
> >
> >Sorry for being thick: yes, they operate on a directory, but
> >how does that imply relative paths?  E.g., the following
> >calls expand on the contents of a single directory, but
> >would be impossible with relative paths:
> >
> >  rm /tmp/*
> >  cp /tmp/*/*.jpg /home/user/images/tmp/
> 
> Not impossible. In Java-speak:
> 
> 	NSDirectory tmp = new NSDirectory(session, new URL("/tmp"), ...);
> 	tmp.remove("*");
> 	tmp.copy("*/*.jpg", new URL("/home/user/images/tmp/"), ...);

Right of course, you can always create an extra dir where
the wildcard paths elements are relative to, or 'cd()' to
thar dir.   I did not think of that *blush*.  I wonder if
others do ;-) 

Andre.


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