*nix - an abbreviation?

[Larry Wall]

In article <1990Mar13.134602.12921 at uunet!unhd> rg at unhd.unh.edu.UUCP (Roger Gonzalez ) writes:
: Yep, as you said A/UX and others don't fit the *IX.  For that matter,
: one of our systems runs UNOS, which is a UN* :-)

How 'bout we switch to normal regular expressions and say something like:

	(u.*[nx]|[rn].*x|ix)

That gets most of 'em, and maybe a few that haven't been invented yet.
Or perhaps

	(^u|[ux]$)

Or maybe that should that be

	(^u|[ux]$|osf)

Probably get a false positive with that one, though.   :-)

Larry Wall
lwall at jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov