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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 05/10/2014 01:55 PM, gregrwm wrote:<br>
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      <div dir="ltr">fair guess, but . isn't special in that context. 
        what i was missing was s*s*g was matching right through
        syslog.2.g so !(*.*) couldn't eliminate dots it couldn't see. 
        no way to specify shortest match for s*s*g afaik.  anyway a
        better pattern is *(messages|syslog)<br>
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    I misread your OP and was thinking regex. My bad.<br>
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            <div class="gmail_quote">On 10 May 2014 13:17, Daniel Taylor
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                        On 05/10/2014 08:12 AM, gregrwm wrote:<br>
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                            <div>ok you bashers, check me on this:<br>
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                              matches wanted:  messages syslog<br>
                              matches not wanted:  anaconda.syslog
                              messages.1 syslog.1 syslog.2.gz<br>
                              pattern1:  !(*.)s*s*g!(*.*)<br>
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                            pattern1 match results:  messages syslog
                            syslog.2.gz syslog.3.gz syslog.4.gz<br>
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                          pattern2:  !(*.)s*s*g!(*1|*z)<br>
                          <div>pattern2 match results:  messages syslog<br>
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                            so pattern2 works.  but is that pattern1
                            result a bug?<br>
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