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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Bourne shell globbing (was How do I deal with (null) filenames?)
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Date: 1 Aug 89 01:51:51 GMT
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In article <2332@wyse.wyse.com> bob@wyse.wyse.com
(Bob McGowen x922-4312 Training) writes:
>If you are using the Bourne shell, the following pattern should work:
>
>	[!!-~].???
>
>The part to the left of the period says anything that is NOT (first
>exclamation) in the range exclamation to tilde.

The standard Bourne shell---that is, the one in Version 7; the one
in 4BSD is essentially identical---does not have negation in glob
patterns.
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