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RE: [Bug-wget] Re: Thoughts on regex support
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Tony Lewis |
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RE: [Bug-wget] Re: Thoughts on regex support |
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Fri, 25 Sep 2009 17:26:19 -0700 |
Micah Cowan wrote:
>Matthew Woehlke wrote:
>> Thought: is it possible to alter the syntax of -A/-R to tell these that
>> you are matching a regex rather than a glob? Maybe by requiring the '::'?
>
>I'm not crazy about that. It would save us the consumption of new
>short-options, but...
>
>I'm not sure I can identify what my objection is; obviously it'd break
>any previous scripts that happen to match that pattern, but that has
>gotta be pretty frikkin' rare.
Especially since, AFAIK, '::' is not valid anywhere within a URL; the way I
read RFC 1630, the only place an unescaped ':' can appear is after the scheme.
Tony
- Re: [Bug-wget] Re: Thoughts on regex support, (continued)
RE: [Bug-wget] Thoughts on regex support, Tony Lewis, 2009/09/24