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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: *nix - an abbreviation?
Keywords: sorry; some misunderstandings :-(
Message-ID: <7417@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 14 Mar 90 22:19:17 GMT
References: <5155@balu.UUCP> <5167@balu.UUCP> <12312@smoke.BRL.MIL> <1990Mar13.134602.12921@uunet!unhd>
Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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In article <1990Mar13.134602.12921@uunet!unhd> rg@unhd.unh.edu.UUCP (Roger Gonzalez ) writes:
: Yep, as you said A/UX and others don't fit the *IX.  For that matter,
: one of our systems runs UNOS, which is a UN* :-)

How 'bout we switch to normal regular expressions and say something like:

	(u.*[nx]|[rn].*x|ix)

That gets most of 'em, and maybe a few that haven't been invented yet.
Or perhaps

	(^u|[ux]$)

Or maybe that should that be

	(^u|[ux]$|osf)

Probably get a false positive with that one, though.   :-)

Larry Wall
lwall@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov