copying files
Tom Christiansen
tchrist at convex.COM
Wed Dec 12 03:20:30 AEST 1990
In article <1990Dec11.125018.12274 at usenet.ins.cwru.edu> chet at po.CWRU.Edu writes:
:In article <110253 at convex.convex.com> I wrote:
:>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.
:The Bourne and Korn shells support it, as do bash and ash. It has been
:blessed by Posix.
Which one, the bang one!!?? That's really idiotic if so, and it hasn't
been voted on yet. If the ^ one, then great, that's very unusally
forward thinking of them; nice to see them do something that actually
looks like other things in UNIX for a change.
Which it it? Do I get to flame or cheer?
--tom
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