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From: Andrew Main <zefram@tao.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: backing up with zsh
To: guckes@math.fu-berlin.de (Sven Guckes)
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In-Reply-To: <19980417224224.O9638@math.fu-berlin.de> from "Sven Guckes" at Apr 17, 98 10:42:24 pm
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Sven Guckes wrote:
>Can I use '|' for "or"?  Example:
>
>   $ echo **/*~*.[Gg][Ii][Ff]|[bB][mM][pP]|[jJ][pP][gG]

echo **/*~*.([Gg][Ii][Ff]|[bB][mM][pP]|[jJ][pP](|[Ee])[gG])

>I'd rather be using something like this:
>
>   $ echo **/*~(*.[bmp|gif|jpeg|jpg]/i)
>
>.. where "/i" means "case insensitive".
>Is there a way with zsh globbing?

No.  zsh has glob patterns, not regular expressions.

-zefram