On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 17:10:48 +0200, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
posted on comp.unix.shell:
I have a problem that I'm trying to solve with the help of extended
globbing. It doesn't work, and so I've narrowed down the buggy bit to a
simple, illustrative example.
I need to match literal parentheses in a globbing pattern. Normally it
works OK:
$ touch foo\(
$ ls foo\(
foo(
But with extglob operators, I cannot match parentheses. Here is a very
simple example:
$ shopt -s extglob
$ ls @(foo\()
-bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
I get a different result, but still not as I would expect:
$ touch foo\(
$ ls foo*
foo(
$ shopt -s extglob
$ ls @(foo\()
ls: @(foo(): No such file or directory
$ ls @(foo*)
foo(
$ echo $BASH_VERSION
3.00.16(1)-release
-Enrique
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