Re: is there a way to use *.{txt,zip,tbz,dmg} if one or more might be missing?

[Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 7/8/19, Peter Stephenson <p.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, 2019-07-07 at 17:10 -0700, Bart Schaefer wrote:
>> On Sun, Jul 7, 2019 at 4:28 PM TJ Luoma <luomat@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > Is there a way to do basically the same thing, but tell `mv` "if is at
>> > least one file with any of these extensions, then move to ~/dir/" ?
>> Use an alternation pattern instead of brace expansion:
>>
>>     mv -vn *.(txt|zip|tbz|dmg) ~/dir/
>
> I'm surprised to see I never added this to the FAQ.  It's getting
> quite hard to search, though...
>
> pws
>
> diff --git a/Etc/FAQ.yo b/Etc/FAQ.yo
> index c4f65e97a..a8d88ec7c 100644
> --- a/Etc/FAQ.yo
> +++ b/Etc/FAQ.yo
> @@ -128,6 +128,7 @@ Chapter 3:  How to get various things to work
>  3.27. What are these `^' and `~' pattern characters, anyway?
>  3.28. How do I edit the input buffer in $EDITOR?
>  3.29. Why does `which' output for missing commands go to stdout?
> +3.30. Why doesn't the expansion mytt(foo.{tex,aux,pdf}) do what I expect?

This part should probably say * too, not foo.

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Mikael Magnusson