From: Jean-Rene David <jrdavid@magma.ca>
To: zsh-users@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: Globbing confusion
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 10:22:51 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060927142251.GA6923@princo> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060927.044622.79063538.Meino.Cramer@gmx.de>
* Meino Christian Cramer [2006.09.26 23:00]:
> I inserted
>
> rm -rf /tmp/mc-4.6.1i*(/)
>
> into my cleanup-script for /tmp and executed it _twice_.
Oh, my mistake. You need the (N) flag because the
warning is generated by the shell when the
globbing pattern generates no match, not by "rm".
Sorry.
> I tried the following:
> I mkdir a directory mc-4.6.1A and touch mc-4.6.1B then I did a
> rm -rf /tmp/mc-4.6.1*(/N) from within a script. BOTH entries were
> removed. Only the directory should be removed.
Works here...
% zsh --version
zsh 4.3.2 (i686-pc-linux-gnu)
--
JR
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-27 14:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-26 3:00 Meino Christian Cramer
2006-09-26 4:24 ` Jean-Rene David
2006-09-27 2:35 ` Meino Christian Cramer
2006-09-27 2:46 ` Meino Christian Cramer
2006-09-27 14:22 ` Jean-Rene David [this message]
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