From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13415 invoked from network); 7 Dec 1996 12:48:30 -0000 Received: from euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (list@130.207.146.50) by coral.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 7 Dec 1996 12:48:30 -0000 Received: (from list@localhost) by euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id HAA16307; Sat, 7 Dec 1996 07:39:35 -0500 (EST) Resent-Date: Sat, 7 Dec 1996 07:31:35 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199612071232.HAA06845@sassy.aa.ans.net> From: Matthew Braun Date: Sat, 7 Dec 1996 07:32:26 -0500 X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.5 10/14/92) To: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu Subject: bug with **/ syntax? Resent-Message-ID: <"PP1ax.0.Wz3.cEMgo"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/541 X-Loop: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu 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/