From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3956 invoked from network); 27 Jun 2004 10:44:18 -0000 Received: from odin.dotsrc.org (HELO a.mx.sunsite.dk) (130.225.247.85) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 27 Jun 2004 10:44:18 -0000 Received: (qmail 19808 invoked from network); 27 Jun 2004 11:53:18 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by a.mx.sunsite.dk with SMTP; 27 Jun 2004 11:53:18 -0000 Received: (qmail 13469 invoked by alias); 27 Jun 2004 10:43:34 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 7601 Received: (qmail 13459 invoked from network); 27 Jun 2004 10:43:33 -0000 Received: from odin.dotsrc.org (HELO a.mx.sunsite.dk) (qmailr@130.225.247.85) by sunsite.dk with SMTP; 27 Jun 2004 10:43:33 -0000 Received: (qmail 18661 invoked from network); 27 Jun 2004 11:52:47 -0000 Received: from madrid10.amenworld.com (62.193.203.32) by a.mx.sunsite.dk with SMTP; 27 Jun 2004 11:52:45 -0000 Received: from DervishD.pleyades.net (212.Red-80-35-44.pooles.rima-tde.net [80.35.44.212]) by madrid10.amenworld.com (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id i5RAhSl09437; Sun, 27 Jun 2004 12:43:28 +0200 Received: from raul@pleyades.net by DervishD.pleyades.net with local (Exim MTA 2.05) id <1BeX78-000047-00>; Sun, 27 Jun 2004 12:42:22 +0200 Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 12:42:22 +0200 From: DervishD To: Aaron Davies Cc: zsh-users@sunsite.dk Subject: Re: Suppressing "no matches found" Glob Message? Message-ID: <20040627104222.GA237@DervishD> Mail-Followup-To: Aaron Davies , zsh-users@sunsite.dk References: <2A3E94EA-C7E3-11D8-9C37-000502631FBD@columbia.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <2A3E94EA-C7E3-11D8-9C37-000502631FBD@columbia.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Organization: Pleyades X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 on a.mx.sunsite.dk X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=6.0 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.63 X-Spam-Hits: 0.0 Hi Aaron :) * Aaron Davies dixit: > Is there an easy way to temporarily turn off the "no matches found" > message that a failed glob returns? I'm looking mainly for something > simple enough to use in an alias--I have an alias called "lspf" which > is defined as "ls **/*(.)", but I'd like to make it return something > custom if no such files exist. Redirecting stderr doesn't help, because > (I assume) the message is generated by zsh, not ls. Yes, change your pattern to, for example 'ls **/*(.N)'. The 'N' means 'set option NULL_GLOB' for this pattern. This removes the error. Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado -- Linux Registered User 88736 http://www.pleyades.net & http://raul.pleyades.net/