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Re: on globbing dot files

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From: Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: on globbing dot files
Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 14:51:35 +0100
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"Ronald Fischer" wrote:
> I would like to expand * to include files starting with a dot, but 
> excluding . and ..
> 
> Doing a
> 
>   setopt glob_dots 
> 
> locally does not solve this problem, since this applies to *everything*.
> Is there a suitable option available? Alternatively, can I achieve an
> expansion
> to all directory entries except . and .. by some other glob expression?

With EXTENDED_GLOB, ^(.|..)(D/) should do what you want.

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