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From: Daniel Shahaf <d.s@daniel.shahaf.name>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: globbing in conditional expressions
Date: Thu, 8 May 2014 10:55:22 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140508105522.GE2052@tarsus.local2> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140507154407.660eb500@pwslap01u.europe.root.pri>

Peter Stephenson wrote on Wed, May 07, 2014 at 15:44:07 +0100:
> matches=(fubar(N/F))
> [[ -z $matches ]]

All three solutions first set an array to the result of the glob.  Is
there a solution that short-circuits, i.e., that returns as soon as a
single matching filename is found?

This matters when the glob is matched against a large number of files.


  reply	other threads:[~2014-05-08 11:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-07 12:41 Roman Neuhauser
2014-05-07 14:44 ` Peter Stephenson
2014-05-08 10:55   ` Daniel Shahaf [this message]
2014-05-08 11:20     ` Peter Stephenson
2014-05-08 15:34       ` Bart Schaefer
2014-05-08 20:19         ` Roman Neuhauser
2014-05-13 15:41           ` Bart Schaefer
2014-05-14  4:19             ` Daniel Shahaf
2014-05-14  7:18               ` Bart Schaefer
2014-05-15  4:55                 ` Bart Schaefer
2014-05-15  9:35                   ` Daniel Shahaf
2014-05-15 14:33                     ` Bart Schaefer
2014-05-15  9:29                 ` Daniel Shahaf
2014-05-15 14:50                   ` Bart Schaefer
2014-05-26 23:52                     ` Daniel Shahaf
2014-05-30  3:59                       ` Bart Schaefer
2014-05-30  8:47                         ` Peter Stephenson
2014-05-30 15:55                           ` Bart Schaefer
2014-05-31  4:43                             ` Bart Schaefer
2014-05-31 17:34                               ` Daniel Shahaf
2014-05-31 17:59                                 ` Bart Schaefer
2014-06-02  9:40                                   ` Peter Stephenson
2014-06-02 12:57                                     ` Daniel Shahaf
2014-06-02 14:15                                       ` Peter Stephenson
2014-05-30 14:45                         ` Daniel Shahaf
2014-05-14  7:42               ` Christoph (Stucki) von Stuckrad
2014-05-14 21:09               ` Roman Neuhauser
2014-05-15  9:14                 ` Daniel Shahaf
2014-05-15 10:05                   ` Roman Neuhauser
2014-05-07 14:57 ` Mikael Magnusson
2014-05-07 15:03 ` Bart Schaefer

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