Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!rutgers!cbmvax!andy From: andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Wildcard types Message-ID: <15751@cbmvax.commodore.com> Date: 9 Nov 90 15:36:12 GMT References: <87.272D0968@myamiga.UUCP> <1990Nov01.061846.27994@hoss.unl.edu> <1990Nov1.181023.21485@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> <18267083.ARN03721@swindj.UUCP> Reply-To: andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel) Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA Lines: 39 In article bruce@zuhause.MN.ORG (Bruce Albrecht) writes: >>In article <18267083.ARN03721@swindj.UUCP> didierj@swindj.UUCP (Alain Didierjean) writes: >[complaint that current directory has no abbreviation like . in Unix deleted] >>Did yoy ever try : >> >> copy /usr/local/bin/somefile "" >> >Where is it documented? I scanned the "Using The System Software" manual provided with >the 3000, and was unable to find it mentioned anywhere. I still would know unless it >had been posted here. Page 8-26, in the COPY command description. >bruce@zuhause.mn.org Some info that wasn't in the current manual is that we support a not operator ( a ~) and character classes (delimited by [ and ] ) in wildcard expansion. So you can say things like list [a-c]#? or list ~([a-c]#?) (not effects the next token, so its best to use parens ) andy -- andy finkel {uunet|rutgers|amiga}!cbmvax!andy Commodore-Amiga, Inc. "It is much easier to suggest solutions when you know nothing about the problem." Any expressed opinions are mine; but feel free to share. I disclaim all responsibilities, all shapes, all sizes, all colors.