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Re: Native file exist check


From: Andrew J. Schorr
Subject: Re: Native file exist check
Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2020 14:26:30 -0400
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)

On Fri, Jun 05, 2020 at 07:56:31PM +0200, Wolfgang Laun wrote:
> It's interesting that ".." and ".?" work, but not a single period ".".

Ah, .? is a good solution. A single "." doesn't work because
an RS of a single character is treated as a character constant,
not a regexp. From the man page:

"If RS is any single character, that character  separates  records.
Otherwise,  RS is a regular expression."

Regards,
Andy



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