pattern search

[Fabian Braennstroem]

Hi Paul,

Paul McGuire schrieb am 03/27/2007 07:19 PM:
> On Mar 27, 3:13 pm, Fabian Braennstroem <f.braennstr... at gmx.de> wrote:
>> Hi to all,
>>
>> Wojciech Mu?a schrieb am 03/27/2007 03:34 PM:
>>
>>> Fabian Braennstroem wrote:
>>>> Now, I would like to improve it by searching for different 'real'
>>>> patterns just like using 'ls' in bash. E.g. the entry
>>>> 'car*.pdf' should select all pdf files with a beginning 'car'.
>>>> Does anyone have an idea, how to do it?
>>> Use module glob.
>> Thanks for your help! glob works pretty good, except that I just
>> deleted all my lastet pdf files :-(
>>
>> Greetings!
>> Fabian
> 
> Then I shudder to think what might have happened if you had used
> re's! :)

A different feature it had was to copy the whole home-partition
(about 19G) into one of its own directories ... the strange thing:
it just needed seconds to do that and I did not have the permission
to all files and directories! It was pretty strange! Hopefully it
was no security bug in python...

Greetings!
Fabian