Re: Excluding files in CVS directories in filename generation

[Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>]

Hannu Koivisto wrote:
> I would be interested to know why **/*~**/CVS/*(.) didn't work,
> though.

Ah, yes, it's not completely obvious.  It's because /'s after the ~
aren't special, and hence neither is **/.  So in fact it is looking for
the pattern `*/CVS/*' and trying to remove that, which doesn't occur.
You would need **/*~(*/|)CVS/*(.)

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Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>                  Software Engineer
CSR Ltd., Science Park, Milton Road,
Cambridge, CB4 0WH, UK                          Tel: +44 (0)1223 692070


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