Bourne shell globbing (was How do I deal with (null) filenames?)
Root Boy Jim
rbj at dsys.ncsl.nist.gov
Sat Aug 5 03:45:07 AEST 1989
? From: Guy Harris <guy at auspex.auspex.com>
? >>> [!!-~].???
? >>>
? >>>The part to the left of the period says anything that is NOT (first
? >>>exclamation) in the range exclamation to tilde.
? >
? >Is this standard in System V.2? V.3? Maybe it's just a SunOS-ism?
? Yes, yes, and no. It first appeared in System III.
Tcsh has a similar feature. `ls *.[^o]' will list any file with a
one char suffix except for onject files.
Root Boy Jim
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