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From: ben@servalan.uucp (Ben Mesander)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: wilcard pattern matching, other questions...
Message-ID: <1990Dec15.194133.8873@servalan.uucp>
Date: 15 Dec 90 19:41:33 GMT
References: <20AVDWK@dri.com>
Organization: Ministry of Silly Walks
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In article <20AVDWK@dri.com> liberato@dri.com (Jimmy Liberato) writes:
>I inadvertantly created an lharc archive that contains all *.*
>(or #?.#?) files on my disk but I meant it to include ALL files.
>Since this file is extremely large and has already been sent to its
>destination I was wondering if there was any way to recursively
>identify all the files I missed that DON'T match *.* so that I can
>create a supplementary archive instead of a completely new one?  This 
>question is not actually lharc specific.  I realized that I was
>not able to do things that are quite simple under unix and msdos.
>I have arp shell and probably most of the little utilities that

BING!

The arp commands use the ~ as an "everything but" indicator:
list ~#?.#?

It's in the ARP docs, might be time to read them...

ben@epmooch.UUCP