On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, McClure, Mike wrote: [...] > in a private reply yesterday i suggested this: > "cp argus.log.{[5-9],1[0-9],2[01]}.gz /tmp" > > which doesn't have backticks, pipes or loops. ...and therefore has no chance of winning the "most convoluted 1-line solution". Really, I don't know why you even bothered :-) Andrew