copying files

Tom Christiansen tchrist at convex.COM
Tue Dec 11 10:58:17 AEST 1990


In article <4914 at mahendo.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> john at nereid.jpl.nasa.gov (John Veregge) writes:
>	The bourne shell allows an enclosed pattern specification of
>	"any character but these" with [! ... ]. The c shell apparently
>	does not (and I looked real hard {-:).

The ! syntax for exclusion isn't very much in line with other regexps.
The tcsh allows *.[^ao] for all the *.? where ? is not a or o.

--tom
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