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Authors: | Kaspar Giger, Erik Wilde |
Group: | Communication Systems |
Type: | Inproceedings |
Title: | XPath Filename Expansion in a Unix Shell |
Year: | 2006 |
Month: | May |
Pub-Key: | wil06i |
Book Titel: | 15th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2006) |
Abstract: | Locating files based on file system structure, file properties, and maybe even file contents is a core task of the user interface of operating systems. By adapting XPath's power to the environment of a Unix shell, it is possible to greatly increase the expressive power of the command line language. We present a concept for integrating an XPath view of the file system into a shell, which can be used to find files based on file attributes and contents in a very flexible way. The syntax of the command line language is backwards compatible with traditional shells, and the new XPath-based expressions can be easily mastered with a little bit of XPath knowledge. |
Location: | Edinburgh, UK |
Resources: | [BibTeX] |