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From: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: copying files
Keywords: cp
Message-ID: <110398@convex.convex.com>
Date: 11 Dec 90 16:20:30 GMT
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In article <1990Dec11.125018.12274@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> chet@po.CWRU.Edu writes:
:In article <110253@convex.convex.com> I wrote:
:>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.

:The Bourne and Korn shells support it, as do bash and ash.  It has been
:blessed by Posix.

Which one, the bang one!!??  That's really idiotic if so, and it hasn't
been voted on yet.  If the ^ one, then great, that's very unusally 
forward thinking of them; nice to see them do something that actually
looks like other things in UNIX for a change.

Which it it?  Do I get to flame or cheer?

--tom
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Tom Christiansen		tchrist@convex.com	convex!tchrist
"With a kernel dive, all things are possible, but it sure makes it hard
 to look at yourself in the mirror the next morning."  -me