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Published inJan 2014
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Gaston Festari
Gaston Festari
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Gaston Festari

Gastón Festari is a scripting language enthusiast with over five years of experience and a firm believer in free, open source software. Currently working as a developer for Globant, he likes to spread the word about zsh at different meetups and events when away from the keyboard.
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This is the part of our journey that requires us to pack up our things and wrap up the chapter. On this occasion though, we went from using Globbing as something we thought was "quite like a regular expression" to understanding what is actually a whole different beast. Luckily for us, that beast was pretty easy to tame once we learned the behavior of the most popular operators and qualifiers. We then expanded on those constructs with more special patterns and got to know zmv in order to make most of our daily tasks a breeze. Summing up, we can say that we:

  • Learned about quotes, escaping symbols, and double quotes together with shell expansion within them

  • Got started with Globbing and parameter substitution within the command line

  • Kicked it up a notch and dove headfirst into extended Globbing, learning about recursive searching, and operators for negating and excluding patterns

  • We learned about glob qualifiers, how to use them to discriminate files by the system time and size

  • And finally...

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Published in: Jan 2014Publisher: ISBN-13: 9781783282937

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Gaston Festari

Gastón Festari is a scripting language enthusiast with over five years of experience and a firm believer in free, open source software. Currently working as a developer for Globant, he likes to spread the word about zsh at different meetups and events when away from the keyboard.
Read more about Gaston Festari