From: "Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: Zsh users list <zsh-users@sunsite.dk>
Subject: Re: check for existence without full globbing
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 02:49:20 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1030204024920.ZM15243@candle.brasslantern.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030203212419.33206.qmail@web12307.mail.yahoo.com>
On Feb 3, 4:24pm, Le Wang wrote:
}
} I wonder if there is a way to check if a glob pattern can be matched
} without getting all files that can be globbed, i.e. a function that
} return true after the first match is found.
Out of curiosity, why?
It can be done, but it requires forking a subshell, which may not make
it any faster than just generating the list of files to begin with:
if ( : *(Ne:exit 0:) ; exit 1 )
then
print There are some files in this directory
else
print There are no files in this directory
fi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-02-04 2:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-02-03 21:24 Le Wang
2003-02-04 2:49 ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
2003-02-04 3:29 ` Le Wang
2003-02-04 5:16 ` Bart Schaefer
2003-02-04 9:38 ` John Buttery
2003-02-04 18:01 ` Bart Schaefer
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