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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
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Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 17:52:40 -0800
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Comments: In reply to Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com>
 "Re: Glob specifiers for intermediate path components" (Nov 26,  7:00pm)
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On Nov 26,  7:00pm, Mikael Magnusson wrote:
}
} > More generally, how can I specify glob qualifiers for intermediate
} > path components? In spirit:
} >
} > $ print -l a(...)/b(...)/c(...)/d(...)/e(...)/f(...)
} 
} You can't, as such. There are at least two workarounds I can think of.

A third would be something like this:

    glueglob() {
      emulate -R zsh -o csh_null_glob
      local here there
      while (( ARGC ))
      do
	here=( $^here$~1 )
	here=( ${^here}${2:+/} )
	shift
      done
      print $here
    }
    print -l $( noglob glueglob a(...) b(...) c(...) d(...) e(...) f(...) )

There's almost certainly a fancy expression that could be written to
split a(...)/b(...)/c(...)/d(...)/e(...)/f(...) on the slashes without
being confused by the (/) glob qualifier, but I'm not going to attempt
to write it tonight.