oops. my bad. You are absolutely correct.
charles
On Sun, 12 Dec 1999, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 10, 1999 at 08:29:10PM -0500, Charles Galpin wrote:
> | actually, the '.' will match any character. So it will also match
> | dead_letters, dead-letters, deadaleters etc.
> [...]
> | On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Vidiot wrote:
> | > >find / -name "dead.letters" -exec rm {} /;
>
> Um, no. RTFM, my man. This is a _shell_ pattern, not a regexp.
> . isn't special in shell patterns (it uses ? for match any char).
> Imagine how bad things would be if . were a wildcard for the shell.
> We talk about *.c etc all the time...
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