Re: find (and friends) bug?

[fabrice bauzac]

Good evening,

On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 09:12:58PM +0000, Hactar wrote:

> $ touch :
> $ find . -name '[:alpha:]'
> ../:

POSIX regexps:

[:alpha:] matches :, a, l, p, h.
[[:alpha:]] matches all alphabetical characters.
It permits to do things such as [[:blank:][:alpha:]].

However, `touch :' seems to create a file ":" in the current
directory, not in the parent directory as in "../:"...

Have a nice weekend

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fabrice bauzac
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