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From: "Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
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Comments: In reply to Greg Badros <gjb@cs.washington.edu>
        "Re: is text file?" (Sep 29,  9:25am)
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On Sep 29,  9:25am, Greg Badros wrote:
} Subject: Re: is text file?
}
} > % ls **/*~*(${~${(j/|/)fignore}})(.)
} 
} I'm fairly certain I'll never type such an incantation (how long did it
} take to dream it up? :-) ).

Oh, I dreamt it up almost immediately.  Took me about eight tries to get
the syntax right, though (mostly because of needing that ${~}).

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