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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
Cc: Zsh Users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: file globbing
Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2021 11:53:49 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH+w=7Yy0YRaNnAiWSDXQUR-ua5qBeT23FRag2SaHiNDJ_aB7A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ad358f29-78a2-ffe7-7590-c4363470bd63@eastlink.ca>

On Thu, Aug 5, 2021 at 11:22 AM Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca> wrote:
>
> So it's ' [: ' that should be taken as
> a single entity and ':] ' likewise.

Uh, no.  Inside a [...] character class, the entire sequence [:word:]
is a single entity, for certain values of word.  Outside of a
character class, [: and :] have no special meaning.


  reply	other threads:[~2021-08-05 18:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-08-05 15:14 Ray Andrews
2021-08-05 15:27 ` Peter Stephenson
2021-08-05 15:36   ` Peter Stephenson
2021-08-05 16:05     ` Ray Andrews
2021-08-05 16:48       ` Vincent Lefevre
2021-08-05 18:22         ` Ray Andrews
2021-08-05 18:53           ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
2021-08-05 17:52       ` Lawrence Velázquez
2021-08-08 15:07       ` Stephane Chazelas
2021-08-08 16:19         ` Ray Andrews
2021-08-08 18:28           ` Lawrence Velázquez
2021-08-08 22:24           ` Vincent Lefevre
2021-08-09  0:41             ` Ray Andrews
2021-08-09 10:46             ` Stephane Chazelas
2021-08-05 15:49   ` Ray Andrews

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