On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 06:46:26PM -0500, Jeff King wrote: > On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 08:58:03PM +0100, SZEDER Gábor wrote: > > > Use a '!' character to start a non-matching pattern bracket > > expression, as specified by POSIX in Shell Command Language section > > 2.13.1 Patterns Matching a Single Character [1]. > > Just when I think I know every little gotcha in the shell,
I've already gave up on that :) > I learn > another one. :) Thanks for fixing this, and for digging up the POSIX > reference. I had to, that 16.04's dash worked, but neither dash in older LTS nor newer upstream version did was particularly puzzling. Turns out that in 0.5.8-1 Ubuntu (Debian? dunno.) started to configure dash with '--enable-fnmatch', which makes it understand '^' as well.
