From: Toshiro <toshiro@internet.com.uy>
To: zsh-users@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: zsh: no matches found
Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 23:04:44 -0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200503202304.44332.toshiro@internet.com.uy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050321004759.GC5243@dan.emsphone.com>
> In the last episode (Mar 20), Toshiro said:
> > Every time I type something like 'find . -name *log' I get the error:
> > zsh: no matches found
> > when there's no file matching the wildcard in the current directory.
> > Is there any way to change this behaviour? (I don't want to escape every
> > asterisk I type).
>
> alias find="noglob find"
>
> will work in this case. You don't want to do it globally, though,
> since almost all commands expect the shell to expand wildcards for
> them.
Is this the only way? In other shells this is implemented in a very simple
way, if the wildcard can be expanded, then it is expanded, otherwise an
asterisk is sent as an argument to the application.
Why is it so complex in zsh? What are the advantages of this implementation?
Toshiro.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-21 1:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-21 0:38 Toshiro
2005-03-21 0:47 ` Dan Nelson
2005-03-21 1:04 ` Toshiro [this message]
2005-03-21 1:08 ` Clint Adams
2005-03-21 2:36 ` Toshiro
2005-03-21 16:45 ` Wayne Davison
2014-04-20 16:12 ugaciaka
2014-04-20 16:18 ` Igor Sosa Mayor
2014-04-20 16:51 ` Sven Joachim
2014-04-20 17:35 ` Igor Sosa Mayor
2014-04-21 19:46 ` John Eikenberry
2014-04-22 6:02 ` lilydjwg
2014-04-22 7:05 ` Bart Schaefer
2014-04-24 4:10 ` lilydjwg
2014-04-22 13:28 ` Igor Sosa Mayor
2014-04-20 16:38 ` Kurtis Rader
2014-04-20 16:47 ` Kurtis Rader
2014-04-21 7:26 ` ugaciaka
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