Ahhh .. . didn't realize that. I just assumed it worked. :(
-Dave
On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 6:17 AM, Maxim Gonchar <gma...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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