Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] test-lib: allow selecting tests by substring/regex with --run

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If you define the pattern is not regexp but is glob, you can use
case/esac to do this without any forking.

Yes, that would probably be OK for most purposes, though I admit my real
love for regex support is the ability to use "." instead of space to
avoid quoting arguments. ;)

I use "?" for the same purpose for globs. For things that are casual,
I find that
it tends to make the end-user (read: my) experience simpler to use globs than
to use regexp, largely for your ".*" vs "*" reasons.