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From: dce@Solbourne.COM (David Elliott)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Bourne shell globbing (was How do I deal with (null) filenames?)
Message-ID: <1810@marvin.Solbourne.COM>
Date: 1 Aug 89 15:25:19 GMT
References: <2131@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> <2332@wyse.wyse.com> <18846@mimsy.UUCP>
Reply-To: dce@Solbourne.com (David Elliott)
Organization: Solbourne Computer Inc., Longmont, Colorado
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In article <18846@mimsy.UUCP> chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
>In article <2332@wyse.wyse.com> bob@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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David Elliott		dce@Solbourne.COM
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