From: Peter Stephenson <p.stephenson@samsung.com>
To: <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: Use glob patterns while reading a file
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2018 09:35:53 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1541756153.3720.1.camel@samsung.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJjRh0SROuSoc4f+3bqLNsc+iASx7MRULrNWqdPjK+MKFHys7A@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, 2018-11-08 at 23:53 +0100, Dominik Ritter wrote:
> I want to use read one of two files, regardless if it exists or not. My
> first approach is to use the alternative glob syntax, but with no luck:
> $(< ./(a|b)(N))
That's a special syntax, expecting a single file so that it doesn't try
to do globbing.
You can get it to work with
$(cat <./(a|b)(N))
pws
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-11-09 9:36 UTC|newest]
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2018-11-08 22:53 ` Dominik Ritter
2018-11-09 9:35 ` Peter Stephenson [this message]
2018-11-09 14:37 ` Dominik Ritter
2018-11-09 16:20 ` Peter Stephenson
2018-11-10 1:21 ` Daniel Shahaf
2018-11-10 2:07 ` Bart Schaefer
2018-11-10 2:12 ` Bart Schaefer
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