From: Adam Spiers <adam@thelonious.new.ox.ac.uk>
To: zsh-users@sunsite.auc.dk
Subject: Re: strange glob expansion
Date: Sun, 5 Sep 1999 22:07:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19990905220731.A7232@thelonious.new.ox.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199909030855.KAA163997@hydra.ifh.de>; from Peter Stephenson on Fri, Sep 03, 1999 at 10:55:26AM +0200
Peter Stephenson (pws@ifh.de) wrote:
> "Bart Schaefer" wrote:
> > Adam Spiers <adam@spiers.net> wrote:
> > } 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.
> >
> > What? L{*/**/*,}.pm is first brace-expanded to L*/**/*.pm and L.pm, and
> > then globbed. There probably isn't an L.pm, so that matches in any sub-
> > directory whose name starts with L and all its subdirectories, all the
> > files whose names end with .pm. You could have done that without the
> > braces, with L*/**/*.pm, but I suspect what you meant was */**/L*.pm.
>
> I think the answer is **/L*.pm --- as remarked by someone a day or two ago,
> **/ can match (very usefully, but slightly counterintuitively given the /)
> in the current directory too. For example, in /usr/local/lib/perl5
> `ls **/A*.pm' gives me:
> AnyDBM_File.pm AutoLoader.pm AutoSplit.pm Text/Abbrev.pm
No, I was after all Perl modules starting with `L' in the sense that I
would say that Text::Abbrev started with `T' rather than `A'. (I
later replace all `/' in the result of the expansion with `::'.) So I
did mean L**/*.pm, not **/L*.pm. However, as Bart rightly guessed,
L{*/**/*,}.pm was a load of rubbish. I actually meant L*{/**/*,}.pm.
Is there a better way of achieving this?
prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-09-05 21:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-09-01 8:11 Hubert Canon
1999-09-01 17:46 ` Bart Schaefer
1999-09-02 10:15 ` Hubert Canon
1999-09-02 15:01 ` Bart Schaefer
1999-09-03 2:48 ` dado
1999-09-03 4:54 ` Bart Schaefer
1999-09-03 12:11 ` Hubert Canon
1999-09-03 14:15 ` Bart Schaefer
1999-09-03 14:34 ` Hubert Canon
1999-09-03 1:40 ` Adam Spiers
1999-09-03 4:34 ` Bart Schaefer
1999-09-03 8:55 ` Peter Stephenson
1999-09-05 21:07 ` Adam Spiers [this message]
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