Dave, do you want to say that your fish can expand character classes?
Like [a-zA-Z]?
Mine can not (:
On Tue, 08 May 2012 22:07:56 +0400, David Frascone <d...@frascone.com>
wrote:
> That looks good.
>
> I usually just do .[a-zA-Z]*
>
> :)
>
> On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 2:41 AM, Maxim Gonchar <gma...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi fishers,
>>
>> I've noticed that it is very uncomfortable to use wild cards to work
>> with
>> 'hidden' files and folders, because when expanded it always produces '.'
>> and '..' directories, which normally are almost never needed for
>> expansion.
>>
>> Consider the following example: you need to copy all the files and
>> directories (including hidden) from one directory to another. You can
>> not
>> write
>> cp -r dir/* dir/.* destination/
>> or
>> cp -r dir/{,.}* destination/
>>
>> because it will be also expanded to the dir/.., which means that cp will
>> copy also the contents of the outer directory. I've failed to find an
>> example, where you really need these '.' and '..' in expansion. Does
>> anyone knows them?
>>
>> So I propose to remove '.' and '..' from '.*' expansion. If someone need
>> them, he can add them manually with with {} syntax.
>>
>> regards,
>> Maxim
>>
>>
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