On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 12:52 AM, wrote:
> [OT] Thanks for your work for the Bash project. I've just learned that you've
> been the main maintainer for a long time, so keep it up! :)
+1000 to that, bash makes my life so much easier and I doubt you get
enough thanks
On 9/28/12 12:52 AM, hans1wo...@gmail.com wrote:
>> The question is whether or not !(x) should match the empty string. The
>> bash matcher treats it similarly to [!x], which does not.
>
> It does however match the empty string at most times. So I guess that's the
> real bug. Again, there is some
> $ echo a*!(x) # does not
> ba
Sorry, that should of course be
$ echo a*!(x) # does not
ab
> The question is whether or not !(x) should match the empty string. The
> bash matcher treats it similarly to [!x], which does not.
It does however match the empty string at most times. So I guess that's the
real bug. Again, there is some inconsistency in
$ echo *!(x)a # does match empty string
On 9/26/12 10:07 PM, hans1wo...@gmail.com wrote:
> See also this thread: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12596468/
>
> It looks like there is some bug in the pattern matcher
>
> $ shopt -s extglob
> $ touch a ab ba
> $ echo a*!(x)
>
> Expected result:
> a ab
> Experienced result:
> ab
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