Pattern patch for prove

Hi all,

Long before prove came along, I used a program named "grind" to manage
my test suites.  One thing that grind had that prove does not was the
ability to specify *which* tests to run.  grind did it via shell
expansion and that was terrible.  Andy sensibly did not include that in
prove.

I want that back, however, so I've included a patch that allows prove
to run tests based upon a pattern.  So if you're heavily focused on
your "Customer" behavior and you want to just run those tests:

  prove -p '*cust*' t/
  prove --pattern='*cust*' t/

Patterns must be valid Perl regular expressions and prove will die if
an invalid pattern is supplied.

Comments welcome.

Cheers,
Ovid

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