* bug with **/ syntax?
@ 1996-12-07 12:32 Matthew Braun
1996-12-07 13:33 ` Zefram
0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Matthew Braun @ 1996-12-07 12:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: zsh-users
I'm trying to get the behavior of ksh's */, which according to the zsh
man page, looks like you should use **/ to get that behavior. To me it
looks like **/ is really acting like ***/.
Examples below.
So is this a bug or am I not reading the man page correctly?
Matthew.
=====
sassy:ftp/glimpse-4.0.src> ls -F
CHANGES Makefile.orig communicate.c glimpseindex.1
CONTRIBUTIONS Makefile.rs6000 compress/ glimpseserver.1
COPYRIGHT Makefile.sgi configure* index/
Makefile Makefile.solaris configure.in install-sh*
Makefile.NeXT Makefile.sunos defs.h lib/
Makefile.alpha README get_filename.c libtemplate/
Makefile.hp README.install get_index.c main.c
Makefile.in agrep/ glimpse.1 mkinstalldirs*
Makefile.linux bin/ glimpse.chronicle split.c
sassy:ftp/glimpse-4.0.src> ksh -c 'ls -d */'
agrep/ compress/ lib/
bin/ index/ libtemplate/
[this next example is the alleged bug, it shouldn't show the directories
under libtemplate --matthew]
sassy:ftp/glimpse-4.0.src> \ls -d **/
agrep/ lib/ libtemplate/template/
bin/ libtemplate/ libtemplate/util/
compress/ libtemplate/include/
index/ libtemplate/lib/
sassy:ftp/glimpse-4.0.src> \ls -d ***/
agrep/ lib/ libtemplate/template/
bin/ libtemplate/ libtemplate/util/
compress/ libtemplate/include/
index/ libtemplate/lib/
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* Re: bug with **/ syntax?
1996-12-07 12:32 bug with **/ syntax? Matthew Braun
@ 1996-12-07 13:33 ` Zefram
0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Zefram @ 1996-12-07 13:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Matthew Braun; +Cc: zsh-users
>[this next example is the alleged bug, it shouldn't show the directories
>under libtemplate --matthew]
>
>sassy:ftp/glimpse-4.0.src> \ls -d **/
>agrep/ lib/ libtemplate/template/
>bin/ libtemplate/ libtemplate/util/
>compress/ libtemplate/include/
>index/ libtemplate/lib/
That is correct behaviour:
A pathname component of the form
.BI ( foo /)#
matches a path consisting of zero or more directories
matching the pattern foo.
As a shorthand,
.B **/
is equivalent to
.BR (*/)# .
Thus:
.RS
.PP
ls
.BI (*/)# bar
.RE
.PP
or
.RS
.PP
ls
.BI **/ bar
.RE
.PP
does a recursive directory search for files named bar, not following
symbolic links. For this you can use the form
.BR ***/ .
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