[GRASS5] [bug #2238] (grass) r.series: support for wildcards in input filenames

[Markus Neteler]

On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 07:38:28PM +0000, Glynn Clements wrote:
> 
> Request Tracker wrote:
> 
> > It would be nice if r.series would accept wildcards for the input maps.
> > 
> > e.g.
> > r.series input=insitu_data.* output=insitu_data.stddev method=stddev
> > 
> > for:
> > insitu_data.001
> > insitu_data.002
> > ...
> > insitu_data.052
> 
> That may also true for several other modules; in which case, it might
> be better to figure out how to build this into G_parser().
> 
> > such as the g.mremove script does. [0-9] expansions etc would be nice too, but not critical.
> 
> g.mremove is a shell script, which makes implementing shell
> substitutions somewhat easier.

Note:
r.out.mpeg supports wildcards. Maybe this could be moved somehow into
the parser.
 
[...]
> > Any reason not to activate this module for 5.3 yet?
> 
> Only the standard reason: once a module becomes "official", changing
> its behaviour becomes problematic.

There would be needed also a html doc file then.
Eg. extending
 http://grass.itc.it/grass51/manuals/html57_user/r.series.html
(which was generated automatically).

Markus Neteler