From: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: checking for file existence when I don't know the exact name
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 16:36:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111024143629.GF4313@xvii.vinc17.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111024143104.07ab64eb@pwslap01u.europe.root.pri>
On 2011-10-24 14:31:04 +0100, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> The standard method is along the lines of:
>
> matchingfiles() {
> emulate -L zsh
> local -a files
> files=(${~*}(N))
> (( ${#files} ))
> }
Wouldn't this be more efficient with files=(${~*}(N[1]))?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-24 14:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-24 13:16 TJ Luoma
2011-10-24 13:29 ` Jérémie Roquet
2011-10-24 14:25 ` TJ Luoma
2011-10-24 14:59 ` Jérémie Roquet
2011-10-24 15:35 ` Peter Stephenson
2011-10-24 13:31 ` Peter Stephenson
2011-10-24 13:41 ` Stephane CHAZELAS
2011-10-24 14:36 ` Vincent Lefevre [this message]
2011-10-24 13:35 ` Stephane CHAZELAS
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