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From: Zoltan Hidvegi <hzoli@cs.elte.hu>
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Subject: Re: Programmable completion bug in beta18
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Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 21:46:26 +0200 (MET DST)
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In-Reply-To: <199605221936.VAA02636@jagor.srce.hr> from Hrvoje Niksic at "May 22, 96 09:36:44 pm"
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> BTW, I do not understand what do you mean when you say that (, | and ) are
> ordinary characters in sh patterns -- Solaris sh gives:
> 
> $ echo *(a)
> syntax error: (' unexpected

But

$ foo='*(a)'
$ echo $foo

prints files ending in (a).

Zoltan