Re: POSIX scripting tip
On Tue 03 Oct 2000, Philip Brown wrote:
> > cp verylongfilename{,.orig}
>
> I'm taking about scripting specifically. What you give as an example is
> something you'd do on the command line.
Sigh.
As I wrote in my first message in this thread:
: OTOH, I agree that avoiding such things is
: generally a good idea (esp. in scripts where saving a couple of
: keystrokes isn't that important), however for interactive work
: it's a pretty nifty feature.
> Anyways, since you bring up that sort of thing, I thought I'd mention
> something folks dont often know about: POSIX SH supports something vaguely
> similar to {,} notation in CSH.
> [Not the odd "file isnt there yet" syntax of bash you give above.
> I consider that a BUG, not a feature]
A bug in POSIX SH?
The feature in bash is *not* globbing. hence nothing to do with files
that are or are not there.
> $ ls fifty?(one|f*)
Hmm.. At least I've learnt something in this thread :-)
Paul Slootman
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