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From: Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: difference between ~ & ^ negation
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2014 22:14:41 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140102221441.204d812e@pws-pc.ntlworld.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <140102133636.ZM10014@torch.brasslantern.com>

On Thu, 02 Jan 2014 13:36:36 -0800
Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com> wrote:
> Hmm.  So what does that mean about a "^" appearing after a "^" ?  That
> is, since / is not special, the expression ^foo/^bar means something
> completely different in pattern context and file generation context?

In pattern context that's the same as ^(foo/^bar).  foo/^bar matches
foo/ followed by anything that's not bar, so this highly useful
expression matches anything except a string consisting of foo/ followed
by something other than bar.

pws


  reply	other threads:[~2014-01-02 23:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-01 15:28 zzapper
2014-01-01 21:44 ` Bart Schaefer
2014-01-02 21:01   ` Peter Stephenson
2014-01-02 21:36     ` Bart Schaefer
2014-01-02 22:14       ` Peter Stephenson [this message]
2014-01-03  1:55       ` Mikael Magnusson
2014-01-03  7:37         ` Bart Schaefer
2014-01-03 19:48           ` Peter Stephenson
2014-01-03 20:10             ` Peter Stephenson
2014-01-03 21:43               ` Bart Schaefer
2014-01-04 21:11                 ` zzapper
2014-01-05 10:01                   ` Eike von Seggern
     [not found] ` <8lp61n01B02mHnv01lp8uc>
2014-01-03 20:56   ` how to shut off auto spell steve
2014-01-03 21:52     ` Bart Schaefer
     [not found]     ` <9ZwH1n01Z02mHnv01ZwLWZ>
2014-01-03 22:07       ` steve

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