[off-topic] apt and do-release-upgrade question - what's sources.list.distUpgrade for?

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Mon, 2020-07-20 at 12:43 +0200, Liam Proven wrote:
> COPY CONFIG.SYS *.BAK
> 
> EDLIN CONFIG.SYS
> 
> 
> 
> (This is an example of the sort of handy wildcard usage that is legal
> 
> in the DOS/NT shells, but illegal in the *nix shell, which is why
> 
> after >30 years, I _still_ prefer the Windows command line.)


[rocketmouse at archlinux conf]$ /bin/ls
CONFIG.SYS
[rocketmouse at archlinux conf]$ cp CONFIG.SYS{,.BAK}
[rocketmouse at archlinux conf]$ /bin/ls
CONFIG.SYS  CONFIG.SYS.BAK

This is an example of the sort of handy bashism usage that is legal in bash.