From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20195 invoked from network); 4 Dec 2008 21:37:08 -0000 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on f.primenet.com.au X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.5 Received: from news.dotsrc.org (HELO a.mx.sunsite.dk) (130.225.247.88) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 4 Dec 2008 21:37:08 -0000 Received-SPF: none (ns1.primenet.com.au: domain at sunsite.dk does not designate permitted sender hosts) Received: (qmail 1897 invoked from network); 4 Dec 2008 21:36:52 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by a.mx.sunsite.dk with SMTP; 4 Dec 2008 21:36:52 -0000 Received: (qmail 20737 invoked by alias); 4 Dec 2008 21:36:36 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 13529 Received: (qmail 20727 invoked from network); 4 Dec 2008 21:36:35 -0000 Received: from bifrost.dotsrc.org (130.225.254.106) by sunsite.dk with SMTP; 4 Dec 2008 21:36:35 -0000 Received: from mail.o2.co.uk (yoda.london.02.net [82.132.130.151]) by bifrost.dotsrc.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4227680308BE for ; Thu, 4 Dec 2008 22:36:21 +0100 (CET) Received: from sc.homeunix.net (78.105.216.138) by mail.o2.co.uk (8.0.013.3) (authenticated as stephane.chazelas) id 492B5A4601D61466; Thu, 4 Dec 2008 21:36:18 +0000 Received: from chazelas by sc.homeunix.net with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1L8Lrt-0006Y4-Vk; Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:36:18 +0000 Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 21:36:17 +0000 From: Stephane Chazelas To: Thorsten Kampe Cc: zsh-users@sunsite.dk Subject: Re: Suppressing failed glob patterns Message-ID: <20081204213617.GB5136@sc.homeunix.net> Mail-Followup-To: Thorsten Kampe , zsh-users@sunsite.dk References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-09-19) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.92.1/8721/Thu Dec 4 14:26:10 2008 on bifrost X-Virus-Status: Clean On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 09:55:37PM +0100, Thorsten Kampe wrote: [...] > I like the default in zsh for failed glob patterns (which errors when no > file matches the pattern). > > For example: > % rm file1.* file2.* > zsh: no matches found: file1.* > > zsh never executes rm (which is fine). Additionially I would like to get > rid of the error message in a script. Unfortunately redirecting stderr > does not work (because rm is never executed). Is there a way to keep the > default and to suppress the error?! [...] {rm file1.* file2.*} 2> /dev/null -- Stéphane