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From: acb@erhs40.UUCP (Sander Beenen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: copying files
Message-ID: <1691@erhs40.UUCP>
Date: 17 Dec 90 15:57:11 GMT
References: <4914@mahendo.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> <110253@convex.convex.com> <1990Dec11.125018.12274@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> <110398@convex.convex.com> <8492@star.cs.vu.nl>
Reply-To: acb@erhs40.UUCP (Sander Beenen)
Organization: Ericsson Radio Systems B.V., Emmen, The Netherlands
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In article <8492@star.cs.vu.nl> maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath) writes:
>In article <110398@convex.convex.com>,
>	tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) writes:
>)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.
>
And lot of more F's.
Why just not simply 'ls -a .??*' or 'ls -al .??*'.
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