On Wed, May 19, 1999 at 12:20:21AM +1000, Conrad Parker wrote: > On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 02:50:22PM +0100, Robert Collier wrote: > > ie. tail all logfiles, until shell expansion allows me to tail > > everything except *.gz haveing a common extension is usefull. > > (bash) > > shopt -s extglob > tail -f !(*.gz) (tcsh) tail -f ^*.gz Mike Stone (of course, this will be interesting when it comes to wtmp...)