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Functions "ls", "dir", "listfiles", "findfiles" ... are Buggy, Redundant, Wrongly Documented #772

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rdbyk opened this issue Dec 12, 2018 · 0 comments
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Functions "ls", "dir", "listfiles", "findfiles" ... are Buggy, Redundant, Wrongly Documented #772

rdbyk opened this issue Dec 12, 2018 · 0 comments
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Cleaning Scilab 6.x Bug

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rdbyk commented Dec 12, 2018

  • buggy cf. here
  • help page(s) state: "Patterns are given to the Unix ls or to the Windows dir commands in order to get information about files.", which is not true ...
  • redundancy; do we really need four "different" functions? We need just one, which is powerful and works correctly ... a proper implementation could be based on POSIX C functions glob wordexp, fnmatch ...
@rdbyk rdbyk changed the title Function "ls", "dir", "listfiles", "findfiles" ... are Buggy, Redundant, Wrongly Documented Functions "ls", "dir", "listfiles", "findfiles" ... are Buggy, Redundant, Wrongly Documented Dec 12, 2018
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