Re: *(@)/subdir expansion

[Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>]

Aaron Davies wrote:
> Really, the correct general solution to this is to fall back on the
> tool that zsh's extended glob attempts to make obsolete: GNU find.
> Despite its arcane and annoying syntax, it's still occasionally useful.
> 
> In this case, you want to say
> 
> find *(@) -name dry -exec ls '{}' ';'

It occurs to me that with the unambiguous (#q...) syntax for qualifiers
with the extendedglob option set, it would be possible to allow things
like

  ls *(#q@)/*

Currently the qualifiers there just get ignored, so there's no
ambiguity.

I haven't looked at the code and don't know if it would be useful enough
to justify the effort.  It's not particularly readable!

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Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>                  Software Engineer
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