Re: [3.0.2] L glob qualifier broken

[Mark Borges <mdb@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>> On Fri, 7 Mar 1997 07:19:23 +1100 (EST),
>> gwing (g) wrote:
g> Mark Borges <mdb@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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-