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? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20140510/5dd0e42e/attachment.html>