From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16182 invoked from network); 4 Feb 2003 09:38:30 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 4 Feb 2003 09:38:30 -0000 Received: (qmail 12396 invoked by alias); 4 Feb 2003 09:38:11 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 5873 Received: (qmail 12387 invoked from network); 4 Feb 2003 09:38:11 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO sunsite.dk) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 4 Feb 2003 09:38:11 -0000 X-MessageWall-Score: 0 (sunsite.dk) Received: from [24.27.11.52] by sunsite.dk (MessageWall 1.0.8) with SMTP; 4 Feb 2003 9:38:10 -0000 Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 03:38:12 -0600 From: John Buttery To: Zsh users list Subject: Re: check for existence without full globbing Message-ID: <20030204093812.GC20304@io.com> Mail-Followup-To: Zsh users list References: <20030204032905.15019.qmail@web12308.mail.yahoo.com> <1030204051624.ZM15383@candle.brasslantern.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="uh9ZiVrAOUUm9fzH" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1030204051624.ZM15383@candle.brasslantern.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Files: The Truth is Out There X-Message-Flag: Outlook/Eudora users: This is an email with a standards-compliant crypto signature. Blame Microsoft/Qualcomm if they mangle it. X-PGP-Keyid: 0x587F0CD702368857 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 947F E6B0 EFBA D239 0881 50A0 587F 0CD7 0236 8857 --uh9ZiVrAOUUm9fzH Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable * Bart Schaefer [2003-02-04 05:16:23 +0000]: [snip Bart's extremely well-informed, as usual, response] Just out of curiosity, isn't this a problem that's neatly solved with a utility like find(1)? I realize that zsh is more than qualified to perform this task, but don't we have dedicated binaries to do things for a reason? This isn't a rhetorical question; I'm sure there is an answer, I'm just wondering what it is...=20 --=20 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ John Buttery (Web page temporarily unavailable) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --uh9ZiVrAOUUm9fzH Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+P4oEWH8M1wI2iFcRAtOxAJ9tLag5sdODFbCwOHCUCEdnuR/0FwCfXVX/ /cKAOfZuvIEmon9+RI9QaqM= =Kw1Z -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --uh9ZiVrAOUUm9fzH--