On 12/31/17 10:36 PM, Eric Cook wrote: > So to make my request more specific, i don't think the extglob !() should > match dotfiles when one of the patterns in the list is preceded with an > period. > to be more ksh93-like.
Let's see if we can be more precise: if a filename beginning with a `.' does not match any of the patterns in a !(...) list, don't return it as a match if the leading dot has to be explicitly matched. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/