regex in 'cp'

On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 10:02:37AM -0700, David A. Sinck wrote:
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/_Actually, it's shell wildcarding that you're looking for.
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/_cp a[2-6].ext destination
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/_cp a[3-6][0-9][0-9].ext destination
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/_cp a[1-8]*[0-9].ext destination
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After I fired off the message I realized I had a bad subject line.
I tried your first example with a "no match' returned.

I'll play a bit longer to see what simple thing I am missing.

-mike