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From: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
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Subject: Re: copying files
Keywords: cp
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Date: 10 Dec 90 23:58:17 GMT
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In article <4914@mahendo.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> john@nereid.jpl.nasa.gov (John Veregge) writes:
>	The bourne shell allows an enclosed pattern specification of
>	"any character but these" with [! ... ]. The c shell apparently
>	does not (and I looked real hard {-:).

The ! syntax for exclusion isn't very much in line with other regexps.
The tcsh allows *.[^ao] for all the *.? where ? is not a or o.

--tom
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