Add support for glob patterns and/or prefixes to "mc"

[tmbdev]

Expected behaviour

I would like

mc rm server/bucket/prefix-*

to remove all files starting with prefix- from the bucket.

Other glob patterns should also work.

Alternatively, a simpler form might be to just add a "prefix" option, as in:

mc rm --prefix server/bucket/prefix-

Actual behaviour

mc: Failed to remove ‘server/bucket/prefix-*’. Object key is missing, object key cannot be empty

Steps to reproduce the behaviour

run mc rm server/bucket/prefix-*

mc version

Version: DEVELOPMENT.GOGET
Release-tag: DEVELOPMENT.GOGET
Commit-id: DEVELOPMENT.GOGET

System information

Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS
Release: 16.04
Codename: xenial

[badscooter23]

Per discussions with AB there are multiple topics that are related to ...

• expected behavior for and mc command where the user specified a path name and --recursive
• the desire to accept wildcards and/or regular expressions on multiple commands
• this also ties into the desire to support a tiering relationship between multiple object stores (eg: a minio and an s3 object store) and the desire to express patterns / filters for behavior

I would like to tie this together into a more comprehensive proposal...
Can you assign this to me (for now) and I will do a write up on this?

Thx

[harshavardhana]

This is not blocked anymore currently being addressed in #2201

[ebozduman]

Removed Blocked label per @harshavardhana 's comment.

[ebozduman]

Closing it since it is a duplicate of #2201

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