On 1/26/21 2:34 PM, gregrwm wrote:
you're calling .. an explicit match to .?
Yes: the leading `.' is explicitly included.
i'd interpret explicit match to mean .. wouldn't match anything other than itself (notwithstanding it's been otherwise for over a decade)
That's not a glob pattern. There are patterns that can match `.' and `..'; `.*' still matches both, for instance. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/