Re: strange glob expansion

[Adam Spiers <adam@thelonious.new.ox.ac.uk>]

Bart Schaefer (schaefer@candle.brasslantern.com) wrote:
> On Sep 1, 10:11am, Hubert Canon wrote:
> } Subject: strange glob expansion
> }
> } I tried something like this :
> } 
> } % echo .scwm/(chan*|**/scwmrc*)
> 
> Directory separators can't be used inside parentheses.  Parenthesized
> patterns match within one level of file hierarchy only.  (The '/' may
> still be useful when matching against strings, as in a `case' label, but
> doesn't work when globbing.)

On a related topic, the following puzzles me:

% cd /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005
% echo L*
LWP LWP.pm Lingua                 (letting you know what's there)
% echo L(*/)
zsh: no matches found: L(*/)      (why doesn't this match the 2 dirs?)
% echo L(*/)#
LWP LWP.pm Lingua                 (why does this match a file?)
% echo L(*/)z
LWP LWP.pm Lingua                 (HUH?)

The upshot of this is that to match all Perl modules starting with `L'
below the cwd, I have to use L{*/**/*,}.pm instead of L**/*.pm.

This is with zsh 3.1.6, no patches.

% uname -a
Linux pulse.localdomain 2.2.10-ac2 #1 Tue Jun 22 10:36:51 BST 1999 i686 unknown

P.S. Is there any movement on making an anonymous CVS tree available?
I'll have a few bug-fixing patchlets ready to submit to zsh-workers
soon, but the rate of development on the list is so ferociously high
that I can't keep up with all the patches.  There have probably been
20 or so already since pws-2!

P.P.S. What version would you rather have patches against?  3.1.6
clean?  The latest pws?

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