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From: jjszucs@cbmvax.commodore.com (John J. Szucs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: tilde in filename
Message-ID: <14295@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 7 Sep 90 22:37:24 GMT
References: <3166@orbit.cts.com>
Reply-To: jjszucs@cbmvax.commodore.com (John J. Szucs)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <3166@orbit.cts.com> bga@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Bruce Albrecht) writes:
>What does the tilde (~) mean in an amigados 2.0 filename?  I couldn't file any
>mention of it in the Using the System Software Manual.  It seems to have some
>sort of wild-card properties (for example, dir ~ seems to be equivalent to dir
>all, and rm #?~ would have deleted a lot more files if I hadn't done a break).
>If it does have special meaning, where is it documented?

The tilde (~) is a new wildcard character used as a logical NOT operator.
It should be placed before the wildcard expression you wish to NOT.

For example:

1.SYS:> list ~(#?.info)

will list all files not matching the pattern "#?.info" (all files that do not
end with .info).

I can't seem to find it in the documentation either (at least at a quick
glance), but I'll check with our Documentation department on it.

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