for direct children, phpcr itself supports globbing

Yep: http://www.day.com/specs/jcr/2.0/5_Reading.html#5.2.2.1 Name Patterns

I think it would be relatively simple to implement something which expands paths containing globs, e.g. it should be possible to support:

PHPCRSH> ls /*/foo/*
PHPCRSH> rm *.txt
PHPCRSH> cp foo* foo/

We would just have to implement something which resolves a globbed path to an array of nodes.

The only implementation difficulty I can see is determining if a given path segment is a glob or not:

1. We could first check to see if the given node exists and if it doesn't check if the parent exists - if the parent exists we assume the suffix is a glob.
2. If the basename contains a * character then treat as a glob.
3. Always treat the basename as a glob, unless there is a concrete node at the given path

i would only glob when there is an explicit *. otherwise there are too
many ambiguities. * is not valid in a node name, or is it?

Also would be great to do something like:

PHPCRSH> ls /cmf/foobar/contents/articles/*/jcr:uuid

Closing in favor of PR #113