X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Thorsten Kampe Subject: Re: problem with globs using curly brackets and ^ Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 15:28:25 +0100 Lines: 53 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: MicroPlanet-Gravity/2.70.2067 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com * Jens Rasmussen (Thu, 19 Apr 2007 15:34:17 +0200 (CEST)) > I'm having a problem with globs using curly brackets and ^. > I've searched the web+forum with no luck, so I'm sorry if an answer > aleardy exists. The answer is in the bash manual page. What has that got to do with Cygwin?! > I've tried the commands on a linux environment and they worked fine + I've > read elsewhere that they should work in cygwin. > So I assume that my config is wrong. I'm using bash 3.2.15(13)-release > (i686-pc-cygwin) and I've just updated all packages. > > THE PROBLEM (using ls for illustration): > > $ ls > Desktop.ini doc optimering test.txt > bin music spaceninja > > FOLLOWING WORKS: > > $ ls -d {Desk*,doc*} > Desktop.ini doc ls -d Desk* doc* > BUT: (I assume that the following is because it normally makes no sense) > > $ ls -d {Desk*} > ls: cannot access {Desk*}: No such file or directory ls -d Desk* > AND: (my actual problem) > > $ ls ^doc > ls: cannot access ^doc: No such file or directory "^" is only used in character ranges ("[^a-z]") > $ ls -d ^{Desk*,doc*} > ls: cannot access ^Desk*: No such file or directory > ls: cannot access ^doc*: No such file or directory > > - And yes, I'm a Linux/UNIX/Cygwin newb! This has nothing to do with Linux nor UNIX nor Cygwin: $ shopt -s extglob $ echo !(Desk*|doc*) Thorsten -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/