As e36freak said, @(.*) does not work also. I also find *(.*) doesn't match . and .. .
$ diff <(ls -d *(.*)) <(ls -d .*) 0a1,2 > . > .. This may not be the expected result, or we need to clarify this in the manual. On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 5:11 AM, Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu> wrote: > On 11/29/11 9:53 AM, Yongzhi Pan wrote: >> Producing the bug: >> >> tux@dell:~$ shopt -s extglob >> tux@dell:~$ shopt -u dotglob >> tux@dell:~$ ls -d *(.*) >> ls: cannot access *(.*): No such file or directory >> tux@dell:~$ touch '*(.*)' >> tux@dell:~$ ls -d *(.*) >> *(.*) >> >> I think even if dotglob is unset *(.*) should still matches all dotfiles. > > Thanks for the report. This turned into a rather more complicated fix > than I anticipated. The fix will be in the next release of bash. > > Chet > -- > ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer > ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates > Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
