James G. Sack (jim) wrote:
Ralph Shumaker wrote:
James G. Sack (jim) wrote:
..
Yes, I think .* is the better way to go. I shall start playing with
that. I thought I understood it until it did unexpected things for me,
so I've been avoiding it for quite some time. (I don't even remember
one whit about its mischievousness.)
Ahhh, I bet you may have gotten thrown by the fact that "special"
characters such as '.' are _not_ special within character classes -- the
square braketdy-delimited thingies.
That may well have been the deal.
And/or maybe that shell patterns are much different animals -- allowing
only '?' and '*' wildcards.
Heh, yeah, I think that was part of it too.
(It may take me a while to get all these straight. Even though it's
been years, I'm still used to DOS usage, as well as a limited exposure
to Amiga wildcards (which, IIRC, worked the way they should (as opposed
to DOS)).)
Regards,
..jim
Thanks.
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