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From: "Ronald Fischer" <ynnor@mm.st>
To: "Stephane Chazelas" <stephane.chazelas@gmail.com>
Cc: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: Why does this extended glob pattern fail?
Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2011 12:20:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1312194058.12893.2158087337@webmail.messagingengine.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <chaz20110727143211.GB967@seebyte.com>

On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 15:32 +0100, "Stephane Chazelas"
<stephane.chazelas@gmail.com> wrote:
> or better, use globbing alternate operator rather than brace
> expansion:
> 
> cp ^$from/*.(log|png) $dest

Actually, this does not work either. Instead, I have to write

  cp $from/^*.(log|png) $dest

The reason is that ^ doesn't apply to the *whole* word, but only up to
the first '/'.

Thanks for helping!

Ronald

-- 
Ronald Fischer <ronaldf@eml.cc>
+  If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port, 
+  and the bus is interrupted and the interrupt's not caught,
+  then the socket packet pocket has an error to report.
+		(cited after Peter van der Linden)


  reply	other threads:[~2011-08-01 10:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-27 13:53 Ronald Fischer
2011-07-27 14:11 ` Mikael Magnusson
2011-07-27 14:32 ` Stephane Chazelas
2011-08-01 10:20   ` Ronald Fischer [this message]
2011-08-01 11:04     ` Peter Stephenson
2011-08-01 13:24     ` ZyX

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