[GRASS5] Wish: wildcards in command line

[Eric Mitchell]

Sounds like a cool feature.  See "man glob" for the "standard"
pathname matching function (I have it here on Linux and IRIX).


Markus Neteler wrote:
> 
> Dear developers,
> 
> a "problem" I regularly face (and my students...) is that you
> can't use wildcards in GRASS/cmd line.
> 
> Suppose you want to patch 20 adjacent images or DEMs, you
> have to specify all the names on command line. It would
> be great to have:
> 
> r.patch in="dem*" out=mybigdem
> 
> Or:
> g.remove rast="*"
> 
> I am dreaming of such a feature since years... :-)
> Do you consider this is feasible (Obviously the parser would
> need to be modified).
> 
> Just an idea...
> 
>  Markus
> 
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