From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4346 invoked from network); 15 Jun 1998 00:31:47 -0000 Received: from math.gatech.edu (list@130.207.146.50) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 15 Jun 1998 00:31:47 -0000 Received: (from list@localhost) by math.gatech.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA04029; Sun, 14 Jun 1998 20:27:07 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Date: Sun, 14 Jun 1998 20:26:56 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <19980615022759.C6601@math.fu-berlin.de> Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 02:27:59 +0200 From: Sven Guckes To: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu Subject: Re: [3.0.5] pattern ^*.tif gives non-existing file (solved) Mail-Followup-To: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu References: <19980613210613.U3086@math.fu-berlin.de> <980613162916.ZM28267@candle.brasslantern.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.92.8i In-Reply-To: <980613162916.ZM28267@candle.brasslantern.com>; from Bart Schaefer on Sat, Jun 13, 1998 at 04:29:16PM -0700 X-Mailer-Info: http://www.math.fu-berlin.de/~guckes/mutt/ Resent-Message-ID: <"KR6il2.0.A-.Df6Xr"@math> Resent-From: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1618 X-Loop: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu Quoting Bart Schaefer (schaefer@brasslantern.com): > } $ cd pics/tiff > } $ ls ^*.tif > } doku04.tif doku04b.tif > } Now, both these files certainly do end in ".tif". Huh? > } But now the scary part: doku04.tif does not exist! > Try "echo ^*.tif". I suspect you'll find that what gets echo'd is the > name of a directory, and that in that directory are the two files above. BINGO! :-) - There was a subdir "bak" with those files in it. Sorry for the noise, folks! Sven [*blushing*]