From: Paul Haahr <haahr@mv.us.adobe.com>
To: Chris Siebenmann <cks@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu>
Cc: es mailing list <es@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu>,
rc mailing list <rc@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu>
Subject: Re: a feature I wish rc had
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1992 17:36:31 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9211022236.AA09994@utopia.mv.us.adobe.com> (raw)
> rc has convenient ways of adding things to a list, but it has
> no particularly easy way of doing the converse, taking something
> out of one. It would be especially powerful if one could take things
> out of implicit lists, ie say 'all filenames of this pattern, except
> filenames of that pattern' conveniently.
i've always wanted this in a shell, but never found a convenient notation
for it. if someone can suggest one, it's certainly a potential es feature.
i just use ``ls|grep -v'' usually.
next reply other threads:[~1992-11-02 22:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1992-11-02 22:36 Paul Haahr [this message]
1992-11-04 1:26 ` Scott Schwartz
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1992-11-03 22:32 Paul Haahr
1992-11-03 22:43 ` Mark-Jason Dominus
1992-11-03 19:53 rsalz
1992-11-03 16:10 Tom Culliton x2278
1992-11-02 22:27 Chris Siebenmann
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