On Wed, 03 May 2000, Philip S Tellis wrote:
>On Mon, 1 May 2000, Devdas Bhagat wrote:
>
>> And of course, habitually, I type tar -zxvf (modify as required) on the prompt,
>> its faster. Plus this supports * :), the GUI doesn't.
>
>*?  (pun intended), try this:
>
>tar zcvf abc.tar.gz *1.[0-2].[0-2]
You missed the point. The CLI supports * (where * is any re), which is what I
was trying to say. The criticism was bout the GUI being limited, not about the
command line.

Devdas Bhagat
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