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Re: a feature I wish rc had



> rc has convenient ways of adding things to a list, but it has
> no particularly easy way of doing the converse, taking something
> out of one. It would be especially powerful if one could take things
> out of implicit lists, ie say 'all filenames of this pattern, except
> filenames of that pattern' conveniently.

i've always wanted this in a shell, but never found a convenient notation  
for it.  if someone can suggest one, it's certainly a potential es feature.

i just use ``ls|grep -v'' usually.