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From: vinsci@nic.funet.fi (Leonard Norrgard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: AmigaDOS patterns with '~'
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Date: 31 Jan 91 05:46:53 GMT
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In-Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com's message of 30 Jan 91 18:13:59 GMT

In article <18313@cbmvax.commodore.com> daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes:
   In article <1991Jan29.172553.421@csun.edu> swalton@solaria.csun.edu (Stephen Walton) writes:
   >However , the behavior of the final ~ is consistent, I think.  Since ~ NOT's
   >[...]

   [...]
   We have an explicit NUL metacharacter, %, for use in AmigaDOS patterns.

Thanks Dave! You just provided a solution for another problem! I
posted a message the other day requesting an AmigaDOS equivalence for
the unix ./filename to denote a file in the current directory (as
opposed to a file somewhere in the path). It turns out that %/filename
works just great, at least on this version of 2.0.

Ie. in a directoy called `tmp':

	list filename
	list %/filename
	list /tmp/%/filename

all produce the expected result, corresponding to the following unix ones:

	ls -l filename
	ls -l ./filename
	ls -l ../tmp/./filename


   Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga (Amiga 3000) "The Crew That Never Rests"

Many thanks! (Randell, why didn't you tell us ;-) !)

-- Leonard