Re: using file globs and regex

Ben Morrow wrote:
[please don't top-post]

Quoth Steve C <smallpond@xxxxxxxx>:
- SC.

then it asks grep for a scalar.
but when you call it without the parens
it asks grep for a list

Please don't talk nonsense.

Ben


Too subtle, I guess.
SC
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