On Wed, 2022-01-12 at 18:17 +0000, Harald van Dijk wrote: > Actually, in bash, unquoted ^ does act as negation. Oh, sure,... I event tested that half an hour before and still wrote it wrong ^^. Then I'd prefer if it would use an unquoted (only) ^ as negation. The standard allows it, and it's better to have some homogeneity. Cheers, Chris.