From: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.org>
To: zsh-users@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: Recursive globbing
Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 17:06:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040517150623.GG7161@ay.vinc17.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0405140907060.9308-100000@toltec.zanshin.com>
On 2004-05-14 09:10:13 -0700, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> No; please please don't do this. Consider:
>
> foo='x*'
>
> print ${~foo}*
>
> Or
>
> bar="$foo*"
> print $~bar
>
> Completely unexpected results.
>
> Also it seriously breaks sh compatibility, so at the very least it should
> be disabled when SH_GLOB or similar options are in effect.
>
> There's a reason that only **/ and not blather**/ is special.
Then there's a problem with **/ :
foo='*'
print ${~foo}*/
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-17 19:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-14 10:25 Vincent Lefevre
2004-05-14 10:54 ` Peter Stephenson
2004-05-14 16:10 ` Bart Schaefer
2004-05-14 16:22 ` Peter Stephenson
2004-05-14 16:35 ` Peter Stephenson
2004-05-17 15:06 ` Vincent Lefevre [this message]
2004-05-16 21:34 ` parameter type differences? S. Cowles
2004-05-16 22:02 ` Wayne Davison
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