Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!andy
From: andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: tilde in filename
Message-ID: <14381@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 12 Sep 90 15:37:59 GMT
References: <3166@orbit.cts.com> <1990Sep11.210431.9184@csun.edu>
Reply-To: andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <1990Sep11.210431.9184@csun.edu> bcphyagi@Twg-S5.uucp (Stephen Walton) writes:
>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?
>
>As many others have pointed out, this is a NOT operator.  However, Bruce
>asked partly because typing "delete #?~" now deletes ALL files, rather than
>just Emacs-type backup files (which end with ~).  The escape character
>is an apostrophe (single-quote), so "delete #?'~" will delete all Emacs
>backup files.
>

Also, beside the new not operator, we have character classes,
using the [],
so things like this:

list [a-c]~(#?.o) are now possible.

		andy

>Stephen R. Walton, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Cal State Northridge


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