Re: Why does this extended glob pattern fail?

[Peter Stephenson <Peter.Stephenson@csr.com>]

On Mon, 1 Aug 2011 12:20:58 +0200
Ronald Fischer <ynnor@mm.st> wrote:
> 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 '/'.

I'm delighted to find out I mentioned this feature --- that ^ applies to
path segments --- in "From Bash to Z Shell", chapter 9, page 216.  The
stuff round there is a useful read for this kind of thing.

http://www.bash2zsh.com/

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