[clug] Shell glob for a range of numbers?

Nemo -earth native- nemo at nut.house.cx
Fri Jan 9 03:57:46 GMT 2004


Actually, no. what you get is 17 copes from files in the range 5..21,
but there is no check that a copy hasn't previously been done before.
You're getting 17 copy commands issued, but not nescessarily 17 new
files in /tmp

.../Nemo


On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 02:55:07PM +1100, James Ring did utter:
> How about another guess...
> 
> You want to copy files in the range argus.log.[5..21].gz, but what you
> really get
> is files in the range argus.log.[1..16].gz.
> 
> Maybe... give me free pizza! ;-)
> 
> James
> 



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