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From: unpingco@mpl.ucsd.edu (Jose Unpingco)
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Subject: help with ~ as exclusion pattern operator
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Date: Sun, 18 May 1997 09:08:50 -0700 (PDT)
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hi,

I have a directory of files 

    ssp0.10coef1.txt
    ssp0.20coef1.txt
    ssp3299.txt
    ssp3300.txt
    ssp3301.txt
    ssp3302.txt
    sspeofproj.eps
    sspgi1.txt
    sspsamples.eps

Why is it that when I do

% ls ssp*t~*co*

I don't get 

    ssp3299.txt
    ssp3300.txt
    ssp3301.txt
    ssp3302.txt
    sspgi1.txt

Instead I get

    zsh: no matches found: ssp*t~*co*

I don't get it. I read the manual page on the ~ operator.

Thanks.