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From: Hannu Koivisto <azure@iki.fi>
To: "Zsh Users' List" <zsh-users@sunsite.dk>
Subject: Re: Excluding files in CVS directories in filename generation
Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2003 19:36:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r7zffbz5.fsf@lynx.tre-1.ionific.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <10346.1070904549@csr.com> (Peter Stephenson's message of "Mon, 08 Dec 2003 17:29:09 +0000")

Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com> writes:

> Yes, indeed.  Luckily, you can do:
>
> (^CVS/)#*(.)
>
> This is the more general form of ** --- the pattern in the parentheses
> is used (here anything but the string CVS) instead of a `*' to match
> directory names.  More precisely,
>   **/
>   (*/)#
> are equivalent.  That's why you don't need another / after the
> parentheses.

Excellent, thanks!  I was aware of the general form but couldn't
think of actually using it to solve this problem :)

I would be interested to know why **/*~**/CVS/*(.) didn't work,
though.

-- 
Hannu


  reply	other threads:[~2003-12-08 17:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-12-08 17:11 Hannu Koivisto
2003-12-08 17:29 ` Peter Stephenson
2003-12-08 17:36   ` Hannu Koivisto [this message]
2003-12-08 17:43     ` Peter Stephenson
2003-12-08 18:14     ` Pavol Juhas

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