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From: rbj@dsys.ncsl.nist.gov (Root Boy Jim)
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Subject: Bourne shell globbing (was How do I deal with (null) filenames?)
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Date: 4 Aug 89 17:45:07 GMT
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? From: Guy Harris <guy@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
	Have GNU, Will Travel.