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From: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications,comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: WB 2.0 Amiga DOS pattern matching ~#?xxx not working.
Keywords: pattern matching, amigaDOS, WB 2.0
Message-ID: <1021@cbmger.UUCP>
Date: 27 Mar 91 17:06:55 GMT
References: <1991Mar27.120327.4502@ucselx.sdsu.edu>
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Organization: Commodore Bueromaschinen GmbH, West Germany
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In article <1991Mar27.120327.4502@ucselx.sdsu.edu> maxc1503@ucselx.sdsu.edu (David Tse) writes:
>
>list ~#?.info ; which should list all but .info files
>
>it doesn't work,

You have to tell the system *what* you want to negate. For this purpose
you need to use brackets:

list ~(#?.info)

This works on my Amiga.

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