From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Return-Path: <zsh-users-return-9519-mason-zsh=primenet.com.au@sunsite.dk>
Received: (qmail 9017 invoked from network); 19 Oct 2005 01:07:17 -0000
Received: from news.dotsrc.org (HELO a.mx.sunsite.dk) (130.225.247.88)
  by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 19 Oct 2005 01:07:17 -0000
Received: (qmail 44024 invoked from network); 19 Oct 2005 01:07:11 -0000
Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90)
  by a.mx.sunsite.dk with SMTP; 19 Oct 2005 01:07:11 -0000
Received: (qmail 29745 invoked by alias); 19 Oct 2005 01:07:03 -0000
Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm
Precedence: bulk
X-No-Archive: yes
X-Seq: 9519
Received: (qmail 29731 invoked from network); 19 Oct 2005 01:07:03 -0000
Received: from news.dotsrc.org (HELO a.mx.sunsite.dk) (130.225.247.88)
  by sunsite.dk with SMTP; 19 Oct 2005 01:07:03 -0000
Received: (qmail 42831 invoked from network); 19 Oct 2005 01:07:03 -0000
Received: from sccimhc92.asp.att.net (63.240.76.166)
  by a.mx.sunsite.dk with SMTP; 19 Oct 2005 01:07:02 -0000
Received: from unicorn.millertracy.com (12-221-97-207.client.insightbb.com[12.221.97.207])
          by sccimhc92.asp.att.net (sccimhc92) with ESMTP
          id <20051019010701i920029u5pe>; Wed, 19 Oct 2005 01:07:01 +0000
From: Dan Bullok <dan.zsh@bullok.com>
To: Zsh Users <zsh-users@sunsite.dk>
Subject: Re: Trouble with zmv and extended globs
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 20:07:00 -0500
User-Agent: KMail/1.8.1
References: <200510181927.25831.dan.zsh@bullok.com>
In-Reply-To: <200510181927.25831.dan.zsh@bullok.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
  charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Disposition: inline
Message-Id: <200510182007.00512.dan.zsh@bullok.com>
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.4 (2005-06-05) on f.primenet.com.au
X-Spam-Level: 
X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham 
	version=3.0.4

The typo gremlin got me.  See corrections below.


On Tuesday 18 October 2005 19:27, Dan Bullok wrote:
> I'm having some trouble with zmv.
> Suppose I have a bunch of python scripts in a directory, and none of them
> end in .py.  I want to give them all a proper extension, so I try:
> 	zmv -n '(*)(#qe,file ${REPLY}|grep "python script",)' '$1.py'
> This works as I expected it to.
> However, if I have a bunch of python scripts in several subdirectories of
> varying depths, I try:
> 	zmv -n '(**/con*)(#qe,file ${REPLY}|grep "python script",)' '$1.py'
zmv -n '(**/*)(#qe,file ${REPLY}|grep "python script",)' '$1.py'



> which gives me the following error:
> 	zmv:238: bad pattern: (*/*)(#qe,file ${REPLY}|grep python,)
zmv:238: bad pattern: (**/*)(#qe,file ${REPLY}|grep python,)



>
> I've also tried:
> 	zmv -n '(*/*(#qe,file ${REPLY}|grep python,))' '$1.py'
zmv -n '(**/*(#qe,file ${REPLY}|grep python,))' '$1.py'