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From: "Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@candle.brasslantern.com>
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Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2001 02:14:39 +0000
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Comments: In reply to Clint Adams <clint@zsh.org>
        "bracket expressions and POSIX" (Jun 29,  2:22pm)
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Subject: Re: bracket expressions and POSIX
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On Jun 29,  2:22pm, Clint Adams wrote:
} Subject: bracket expressions and POSIX
}
} POSIX says that \ loses its special meaning within a bracket
} expression for pattern matching and also that ! is the
} ^ character in that context.
} 
} So this strikes me as non-compliant:
} 
} % emulate sh
} % touch \\test abc
} % echo [!a]*
} zsh: event not found: a]

Try it with `emulate -R sh'.  Just `emulate sh' does not turn on all the
POSIX shell emulation options -- in particular `banghist' is still set,
and history references take precedence over glob patterns.

} % echo [\!a]*
} \test
} % echo [\]*
} []*
} % echo [\\]*
} \test

With `emulate -R sh' I get:

$ ls
\test  abc
$ echo [!a]*
\test
$ echo [\!a]*			<- That one is especially odd.
\test
$ echo [\]*
[]*
$ echo [\\]*
\test
$ setopt badpattern
$ echo [\]*
zsh: bad pattern: []*

So it appears that zsh is in fact not POSIX-compliant with respect to
backslashes inside brackets, but is OK with respect to `!'.

$ echo [\\!a]*     
\test abc


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