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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
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Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 21:13:20 -0700
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Comments: In reply to zzapper <david@rayninfo.co.uk>        "Re: "\rm
 -f" stops after the 1st glob not found" (Aug 16,  2:34pm)
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On Aug 16,  2:34pm, zzapper wrote:
}
} I have the following but it doesn't or no longer works??
} 
} ls *.{jpg,gif}(.N) # do not break if one or other image type absent

"Doesn't" in what way?

If you do that in a directory that has *neither* .jpg *nor* .gif files,
"ls" will be invoked with no arguments.  Might that be what happened?