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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Tom Christiansen		tchrist at convex.com	convex!tchrist
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