? in filename matching

? in filename matching

[Timothy J. Luoma]

I just made a bunch of changes to my setopts and one of them seems to have
a side effect I didn't realize or understand.

If I have a bunch of files

file.1234
file.abdf
file.MEME

and I want to match them all, I thought I did 'ls file.????' (to get
just the files named 'file.' with 4 characters after the .)

now I get 'file.???? not found'

I know this is going to be super easy and you'll wonder why I couldn't
figure it out, but there it is....

TjL

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Re: ? in filename matching

[Zefram]

Timothy J. Luoma wrote:
>and I want to match them all, I thought I did 'ls file.????' (to get
>just the files named 'file.' with 4 characters after the .)
>
>now I get 'file.???? not found'

Do the files still exist?  Of have you possibly typed "setopt noglob",
"unsetopt glob" or "set -f"?

-zefram