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From: Paul Haahr <haahr@mv.us.adobe.com>
To: rsalz@osf.org
Cc: es@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu, rc@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu
Subject: Re: a feature I wish rc had
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1992 17:32:34 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9211032232.AA02604@utopia.mv.us.adobe.com> (raw)

yes, these are all good suggestions, but they don't feel right
to me.  what i want is some notation for saying

	save (*.[ch] - y.tab.c xxx.*)

while, of course, would generate all .c and .h files other than
y.tab.c and anything that matched xxx.*.  note that, in this
hypothetical, the things after the - are not glob expaned but
just used to filter the list.

and while i could probably come up with a remove operation that
had the same semantics, it's missing the notational convenience.
on the other hand, i'm not sure i'd want to use a shell that had
such syntax in it.

(by the way:  i tend to dislike using eval to get around the
meta-character rules, but that's just my hangup.)


             reply	other threads:[~1992-11-03 22:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1992-11-03 22:32 Paul Haahr [this message]
1992-11-03 22:43 ` Mark-Jason Dominus
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1992-11-03 19:53 rsalz
1992-11-03 16:10 Tom Culliton x2278
1992-11-02 22:36 Paul Haahr
1992-11-04  1:26 ` Scott Schwartz
1992-11-02 22:27 Chris Siebenmann

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