copying files

[Chet Ramey]

In article <8525 at star.cs.vu.nl> maart at cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath) writes:

>...just like the POSIX shell.  POSIX `blessed' the existing practice (*),
>that is `!', instead of `^', which would have been more consistent with
>the regular expression syntaxes.  But who gives a damn about consistency?

It is sort of consistent, in a twisted sort of way.  Everywhere in the
shell that `not' is needed, `!' is used:  to invert the return value of
a pipeline, to negate a test in the `test' command (which is pretty much
assumed to be built in), and to negate a pattern in file name generation.

Chet
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