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docs: Remove stuff from globbing
That `find` example is a bit dated and awkward, and doesn't really fit the section. We also don't want to point people to `?` because we want to remove it.
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@ -462,16 +462,6 @@ When a parameter includes an :ref:`unquoted <quotes>` ``*`` star (or "asterisk")
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- ``?`` can match any single character except ``/``. This is deprecated and can be disabled via the ``qmark-noglob`` :ref:`feature flag<featureflags>`, so ``?`` will just be an ordinary character.
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Other shells, such as zsh, have a much richer glob syntax, like ``**(.)`` to only match regular files. Fish does not. Instead of reinventing the wheel, use programs like ``find`` to look for files. For example::
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function ff --description 'Like ** but only returns plain files.'
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# This also ignores .git directories.
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find . \( -name .git -type d -prune \) -o -type f | \
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sed -n -e '/^\.\/\.git$/n' -e 's/^\.\///p'
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end
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You would then use it in place of ``**`` like this, ``my_prog (ff)``, to pass only regular files in or below $PWD to ``my_prog``. [#]_
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Wildcard matches are sorted case insensitively. When sorting matches containing numbers, they are naturally sorted, so that the strings '1' '5' and '12' would be sorted like 1, 5, 12.
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Hidden files (where the name begins with a dot) are not considered when wildcarding unless the wildcard string has a dot in that place.
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- ``a*`` matches any files beginning with an 'a' in the current directory.
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- ``???`` matches any file in the current directory whose name is exactly three characters long.
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- ``**`` matches any files and directories in the current directory and all of its subdirectories.
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- ``~/.*`` matches all hidden files (also known as "dotfiles") and directories in your home directory.
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