Re: Suppressing "no matches found" Glob Message?

[Aaron Davies <agdavi01@louisville.edu>]

On Jun 28, 2004, at 4:53 AM, DervishD wrote:

> Aaron Davies <agdavi01@louisville.edu> dixit:
>
>>> Yes, change your pattern to, for example 'ls **/*(.N)'. The 'N'
>>> means 'set option NULL_GLOB' for this pattern. This removes the
>>> error.
>>
>> NULL_GLOB seems to remove the pattern entirely, so it no longer finds
>> plain files only.
>
> NULL_GLOB makes zsh deleting the pattern if no match is found,
> but happens that 'ls', without options, prints all files and dirs in
> the current directory.
>
>> I think what I want may be NOMATCH instead, but I
>> can't figure out a code to set that. Is there one?
>
> Don't know, but you don't want NOMATCH set: it *prints* an error
> if a match is not found. If you unset it, what you are going to have
> is the pattern as-is, so 'ls' will complain saying that '**/*(.)'
> doesn't exist.

That wouldn't be so bad, actually; I could redirect that error to 
/dev/null. So, does anyone know how to set that option in a pattern?
-- 
Aaron Davies
agdavi01@louisville.edu