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Re: Assorted _arguments arguments

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From: Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: Assorted _arguments arguments
Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 19:12:45 +0100
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Bart wrote:
> On a similar topic, can anyone think of a way to write an exclusive-or
> glob pattern?  E.g. I want to match ChangeLog if that exists, or Changes
> if that exists, but neither if both exist?

I don't think this is possible.  The globbing code matches files
separately.  It would have to look at the list of files already matched to
know whether to reject both that and the new one, which is extremely
hairy.  Obviously you can do it with arrays and things.

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References:
- Assorted _arguments arguments
  - From: Bart Schaefer

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