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• perhaps useful together (Score:2)

  by jmm (276)

  Needless to say, both -I and -E cannot be included in a single invocation of activitymail.

  I don't see why it is "needless to say". Surely it could be useful to allow multiple -I and -E options in a single invokation to specify subtle patterns of selection. Just process them in order and use the selected result whenever a match is foud, or reverse the final option if its pattern fails to match. So: "-I normal -E no*" would exclude most files beginning with "no", but still include "normal" as well as fil
  • Re:perhaps useful together (Score:1)

    by smew (4926)

    Perhaps a better sentence to use would have been: It is ambiguous at best to specify both -I and -E, thus it is not allowed. Your suggested algorithm is neither the one that I came up with, nor the one that David originally implemented, thus we decided not to allow it to avoid such confusion. Gary Meyer.
  • Re:perhaps useful together (Score:2)

    by Theory (10)

    I kinda like this idea, but I'm not sure how I'd divide it up if either or both -E and -I specified multiple regular expressions. How to decide which go first?
    
    David