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Re: PATCH: glob qualifier to prepend a word

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From: Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: PATCH: glob qualifier to prepend a word
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:21:16 +0000
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Mikael Magnusson wrote:
> So my theory on why this can be done after sorting but e can't is that
> e can remove matches, which is done before sorting. Is that correct?

"e" can play around with matches how it likes, up to and including doing
arbitrary private forms of globbing of its own, so sorting needs to come
after, yes.  I should have said so explicitly.

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