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Re: help with ~ as exclusion pattern operator

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From: Andrei Tcherepanov <tandr@xxxxxxx>
To: Jose Unpingco <unpingco@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: help with ~ as exclusion pattern operator
Date: Sun, 18 May 1997 18:22:50 +0200
Cc: zsh <zsh-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Organization: Parametric Technology Corp. (Israel)
References: <9705181608.AA10288@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sender: tandr@xxxxxxx

Jose Unpingco wrote:
> 
> hi,
> 
> I have a directory of files
> 
>     ssp0.10coef1.txt
>     ssp0.20coef1.txt
>     ssp3299.txt
>     ssp3300.txt
>     ssp3301.txt
>     ssp3302.txt
>     sspeofproj.eps
>     sspgi1.txt
>     sspsamples.eps
> 
> Why is it that when I do
> 
> % ls ssp*t~*co*
> 
> I don't get
> 
>     ssp3299.txt
>     ssp3300.txt
>     ssp3301.txt
>     ssp3302.txt
>     sspgi1.txt
> 
> Instead I get
> 
>     zsh: no matches found: ssp*t~*co*
> 
> I don't get it. I read the manual page on the ~ operator.
> 
> Thanks.

... and don't read about setopt extendedglob  ;-) 
(really, I got THE same problem about 2 days ago ...)

-- 
Thanks,
  Andrei ( tandr@xxxxxxx )

References:
- help with ~ as exclusion pattern operator
  - From: Jose Unpingco

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