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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


      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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