From: Aaron Davies <agdavi01@louisville.edu>
To: zsh-users@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: Globbing for Empty Directories?
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 01:05:14 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0BA28EC3-8147-11D8-913F-000502631FBD@louisville.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1040329005420.ZM26518@candle.brasslantern.com>
On Sunday, March 28, 2004, at 07:54 PM, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> On Mar 28, 6:55pm, Aaron Davies wrote:
> }
> } > So even if zsh implemented an "empty directory" globbing flag
> } > internally, it'd be doing effectively the same thing as the
> function
> } > I showed.
> }
> } Alright then. It'd still be a nice thing to have in zsh. Is it a
> policy
> } that globbing be limited to things the filesystem can tell you
> directly?
>
> I wouldn't say its "a policy", but so far it is a truism, AFAIK.
Well, it might not be a policy either, but it seems to me that a worthy
goal (and one nearly reached) for zsh's globbing system would be to
completely obsolete find. On cursory examination, finding empty
directories seems to be the only thing missing. Is there any particular
reason it shouldn't be added?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-29 6:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-28 7:00 Aaron Davies
2004-03-28 19:21 ` Bart Schaefer
2004-03-28 20:13 ` Aaron Davies
2004-03-28 20:55 ` Bart Schaefer
2004-03-28 23:55 ` Aaron Davies
2004-03-29 0:54 ` Bart Schaefer
2004-03-29 6:05 ` Aaron Davies [this message]
2004-03-28 19:49 ` DervishD
2004-03-29 6:03 ` Aaron Davies
2004-03-29 13:28 ` DervishD
2004-03-29 15:19 ` Danek Duvall
2004-03-29 15:57 ` DervishD
2004-03-29 23:11 ` Aaron Davies
2004-03-29 23:24 ` DervishD
2004-03-31 1:44 ` Aaron Davies
2004-03-31 8:44 ` DervishD
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