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Re: extglob patterns and dotfiles
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: extglob patterns and dotfiles |
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Sun, 31 Dec 2017 13:47:10 -0500 |
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On 12/29/17 6:55 PM, Eric Cook wrote:
> When using an pattern that begin with an period in pattern-list, bash will
> include dotfiles in the results.
> This doesn't seem to be the case with the various korn shells that i have
> seen. Since extglob is based on
> ksh's extension to globbing, this appears to be an bug.
It's an interesting question. .c certainly doesn't match any of the
subpatterns. I guess including a `.' as the leading character in the
subpatterns shouldn't allow filenames beginning with `.' to be returned
as not matching. I'll take a look.
Chet
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