XPath filename expansion in a Unix shell

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XPath filename expansion in a Unix shell

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International World Wide Web Conference archive
Proceedings of the 15th international conference on World Wide Web table of contents

Edinburgh, Scotland

POSTER SESSION: Browsers and UI, web engineering, hypermedia & multimedia, security, and accessibility table of contents

Pages: 863 - 864

Year of Publication: 2006

ISBN:1-59593-323-9

Authors

Kaspar Giger	ETH Zürich
Erik Wilde	ETH Zürich

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SIGWEB: ACM Special Interest Group on Hypertext, Hypermedia, and Web
ACM: Association for Computing Machinery

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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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, the emphXPath Shell (XPsh), 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.

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