[ale] Mass changing of file extension

[mike at trausch.us]

On 09/14/2012 11:26 AM, JD wrote:
> There is no different in the shell globbing between "*tsv" and "*.tsv" since "."
> matches any character in a regex.
> 
> The ".ext" match is special in MS-Dos/Windows, not UNIX.

In regex, the period must be escaped.

In shell globbing, the dot isn't a wildcard at all, it's a literal
character (compare to DOS/Windows, where the dot is literal UNLESS it is
the last dot, and then it is special, and THEN only if it is using short
filenames in the filesystem that it is working with, such as VFAT or
NTFS with FAT-style short filenames enabled).

Ahh, filesystems.  :-)

	--- Mike

-- 
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