From: "Ronald Fischer" <ynnor@mm.st>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Why does this extended glob pattern fail?
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 15:53:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1311774830.29469.2156456149@webmail.messagingengine.com> (raw)
In my zsh script, I want to copy all files from a directory, except
files ending in .log and .png. This is my code:
....
setopt extendedglob # makes ^ work in glob pattern
cp ^$from/*.{log,png} $dest
....
However, there are cases when $from has neither .log nor .png files; but
it DOES contain other files. In this case I get the error message
no matches found: ^/home/...../*.log
I think this has to do with the timing of when interpretation of {....}
and when globbing is done. Why exactly do I get the error message, and
how do I code this correctly?
Im using zsh 4.2.
Ronald
--
Ronald Fischer <ronaldf@eml.cc>
+ If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port,
+ and the bus is interrupted and the interrupt's not caught,
+ then the socket packet pocket has an error to report.
+ (cited after Peter van der Linden)
next reply other threads:[~2011-07-27 14:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-27 13:53 Ronald Fischer [this message]
2011-07-27 14:11 ` Mikael Magnusson
2011-07-27 14:32 ` Stephane Chazelas
2011-08-01 10:20 ` Ronald Fischer
2011-08-01 11:04 ` Peter Stephenson
2011-08-01 13:24 ` ZyX
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