From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23023 invoked from network); 21 Mar 2005 00:48:25 -0000 Received: from news.dotsrc.org (HELO a.mx.sunsite.dk) (130.225.247.88) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 21 Mar 2005 00:48:25 -0000 Received: (qmail 49088 invoked from network); 21 Mar 2005 00:48:19 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by a.mx.sunsite.dk with SMTP; 21 Mar 2005 00:48:19 -0000 Received: (qmail 8618 invoked by alias); 21 Mar 2005 00:48:13 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 8617 Received: (qmail 8604 invoked from network); 21 Mar 2005 00:48:12 -0000 Received: from news.dotsrc.org (HELO a.mx.sunsite.dk) (130.225.247.88) by sunsite.dk with SMTP; 21 Mar 2005 00:48:12 -0000 Received: (qmail 47986 invoked from network); 21 Mar 2005 00:48:12 -0000 Received: from dan.emsphone.com (199.67.51.101) by a.mx.sunsite.dk with SMTP; 21 Mar 2005 00:48:08 -0000 Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) id j2L0lxJZ045635; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 18:47:59 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 18:47:59 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Toshiro Cc: zsh-users@sunsite.dk Subject: Re: zsh: no matches found Message-ID: <20050321004759.GC5243@dan.emsphone.com> References: <200503202238.31745.toshiro@internet.com.uy> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200503202238.31745.toshiro@internet.com.uy> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.4-PRERELEASE X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2 on a.mx.sunsite.dk X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=6.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.0.2 X-Spam-Hits: -2.6 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. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com