From: Christoph Anton Mitterer <calestyo@scientia.org>
To: Harald van Dijk <harald@gigawatt.nl>, dash@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: possible wrong behaviour with patterns using a quoted ^ at the start of a bracket expression
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2022 19:21:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5591608d42348f5cdc7ba061b8b44e80b71c2d36.camel@scientia.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <944ee473-9ad6-c13f-48cb-690086c2c902@gigawatt.nl>
On Wed, 2022-01-12 at 18:17 +0000, Harald van Dijk wrote:
> Actually, in bash, unquoted ^ does act as negation.
Oh, sure,... I event tested that half an hour before and still wrote it
wrong ^^.
Then I'd prefer if it would use an unquoted (only) ^ as negation. The
standard allows it, and it's better to have some homogeneity.
Cheers,
Chris.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-01-12 18:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-01-12 16:25 possible wrong behaviour with patterns using a quoted ^ at the start of a bracket expression Christoph Anton Mitterer
2022-01-12 17:20 ` Harald van Dijk
2022-01-12 17:47 ` Christoph Anton Mitterer
2022-01-12 18:17 ` Harald van Dijk
2022-01-12 18:21 ` Christoph Anton Mitterer [this message]
2022-01-18 6:13 ` [PATCH] expand: Always quote caret when using fnmatch Herbert Xu
2022-01-18 8:44 ` Harald van Dijk
2022-01-19 5:37 ` [v2 PATCH] " Herbert Xu
2022-02-20 7:15 ` Stephane Chazelas
2022-02-21 16:39 ` Eric Blake
2022-02-21 17:06 ` Harald van Dijk
2022-02-21 19:15 ` Stephane Chazelas
2022-01-18 14:29 ` [PATCH] " Christoph Anton Mitterer
2022-01-18 14:54 ` Chet Ramey
2022-01-18 22:33 ` Herbert Xu
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