Re: [Fish-users] Wildcards and ranges, am I missing something?

[Myrddin E. <my...@gm...>]

I'm no expert in fish, even though it's my standard shell, but this feels
like something you could customize with an alias.

function rmr
    if test (count $argv) -eq 0
        echo "Usage: rmr <regex-pattern> [rm-flags]"
        echo "Example: rmr '^[a-c].*'  # removes files starting with a, b,
or c"
        return 1
    end
    rm $argv[2..-1] (string match -r $argv[1] *)
end

Perhaps someone smarter than me could do it without requiring single quotes
around the regex. You could probably also make some equivalent `rmg`
variant by inserting some hellish Perl one-liner that converts glob syntax
into regex.