Bourne shell globbing (was How do I deal with (null) filenames?)
David Elliott
dce at Solbourne.COM
Wed Aug 2 01:25:19 AEST 1989
In article <18846 at mimsy.UUCP> chris at mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
>In article <2332 at wyse.wyse.com> bob at wyse.wyse.com
>(Bob McGowen x922-4312 Training) writes:
>> [!!-~].???
>>
>>The part to the left of the period says anything that is NOT (first
>>exclamation) in the range exclamation to tilde.
This one caught me by surprise. I've been programming in the
Bourne shell for a long time, and I never saw this before. Of
course, I haven't seen the need to reread the manual for quite
a while, so I could have easily missed it.
Is this standard in System V.2? V.3? Maybe it's just a SunOS-ism?
I'd sure like to be able to use it, but it would help to know
how widely it is available.
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