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In article <110253@convex.convex.com> tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) writes:

>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.

Chet
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Chet Ramey				``I die, Horatio''
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