From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5074 invoked from network); 10 Jun 1997 15:36:44 -0000 Received: from euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (list@130.207.146.50) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 10 Jun 1997 15:36:44 -0000 Received: (from list@localhost) by euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA16222; Tue, 10 Jun 1997 11:27:56 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 11:27:23 -0400 (EDT) From: Zefram Message-Id: <10546.199706101527@stone.dcs.warwick.ac.uk> Subject: Re: ? in filename matching To: luomat@peak.org Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 16:27:24 +0100 (BST) Cc: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu In-Reply-To: from "Timothy J. Luoma" at Jun 10, 97 11:05:11 am X-Loop: zefram@dcs.warwick.ac.uk X-Stardate: [-31]9463.22 X-Phase: The Moon is Waxing Crescent (27% of Full) X-US-Congress: Moronic fuckers X-Personality: INTJ X-This-is-not-HTML: Content-Type: text Resent-Message-ID: <"PdKNB2.0.6y3.Q9Ndp"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/892 X-Loop: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu 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