From: Mark Borges <mdb@cdc.noaa.gov>
To: gwing@primenet.com.au
Cc: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: [3.0.2] L glob qualifier broken
Date: 06 Mar 1997 14:27:28 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <vkafogyam7.fsf@cdc.noaa.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: gwing@primenet.com.au's message of Fri, 7 Mar 1997 07:19:23 +1100 (EST)
>> On Fri, 7 Mar 1997 07:19:23 +1100 (EST),
>> gwing (g) wrote:
g> Mark Borges <mdb@cdc.noaa.gov> writes:
g> : $ ls -al
g> : total 928
g> : drwxr-xr-x 2 mdb climate 512 Mar 6 12:09 .
g> : drwxr-xr-x 15 mdb climate 1536 Feb 5 11:52 ..
g> : -rw-rw-r-- 1 mdb climate 13440 Mar 6 11:37 cv397.bin
g> : -rw-r--r-- 1 mdb climate 14336 Mar 6 11:02 cv397.rtf
g> : -rw-rw-r-- 1 mdb climate 9700 Mar 6 11:37 cv397.txt
g> : -rw-r----- 1 mdb climate 4587 Mar 6 12:15 pubs.ref
g> : -rw-r----- 1 mdb climate 4925 Mar 6 12:05 pubs.ref~
g> : -rw-r--r-- 1 mdb climate 6588 Mar 6 12:04 pubs0.ref
g> : $ ls *(Lk+5)
g> : cv397.bin cv397.rtf cv397.txt pubs0.ref
g> :i.e., correct. But,
g> : $ ls *(Lk-5)
g> : /usr/local/bin/ls: *(Lk-5): No such file or directory
g> :Shouldn't it have returned the other two files?
g> No.
g> Oh, do you want a reason?
[ explanation elided ]
OK, 1k != 1000. doh!
g> The complement to ``ls *(Lk+5)'' is ``ls *(Lk-5,Lk5)''
Hmm, a some sort of "less/greater than or equal to" flag would be neat
here. Though I don't know what symbol would be even possible.
Anyway, thanks for the explanation.
--
-mb-
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1997-03-06 19:40 Mark Borges
1997-03-06 20:19 ` gwing
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