On 05/10/2014 01:55 PM, gregrwm wrote: > fair guess, but . isn't special in that context. what i was missing > was s*s*g was matching right through syslog.2.g so !(*.*) couldn't > eliminate dots it couldn't see. no way to specify shortest match for > s*s*g afaik. anyway a better pattern is *(messages|syslog) > I misread your OP and was thinking regex. My bad. > > On 10 May 2014 13:17, Daniel Taylor <random at argle.org > <mailto:random at argle.org>> wrote: > > (*\.*) > > > On 05/10/2014 08:12 AM, gregrwm wrote: >> ok you bashers, check me on this: >> >> matches wanted: messages syslog >> matches not wanted: anaconda.syslog messages.1 syslog.1 syslog.2.gz >> pattern1: !(*.)s*s*g!(*.*) >> pattern1 match results: messages syslog syslog.2.gz syslog.3.gz >> syslog.4.gz >> pattern2: !(*.)s*s*g!(*1|*z) >> pattern2 match results: messages syslog >> >> so pattern2 works. but is that pattern1 result a bug? > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20140510/287ddf76/attachment.html>