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Re: GLOBIGNORE documentation
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Isabella Parakiss |
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Re: GLOBIGNORE documentation |
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Mon, 7 Mar 2016 08:58:05 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) |
On Sun, Mar 06, 2016 at 10:16:58PM +0000, Stephane Chazelas wrote:
> Today, I realised that GLOBIGNORE doesn't work at all like ksh's
> FIGNORE.
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> With
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> GLOBIGNORE=x*
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> we're not filtering out files whose *name* starts with "x" from
> globs but those whose *path* starts with "x".
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> In
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> echo *
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> files whose name starts with "x" will be excluded, but not in
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> echo ./*
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OTOH this is arguably more useful than its ksh equivalent:
GLOBIGNORE=-*; some-cmd *; some-cmd ./*
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xoxo iza