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Date: Thu, 07 May 2015 18:00:45 +0100
From: Peter Stephenson <p.stephenson@samsung.com>
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Subject: Re: Some problems with recursive globbing
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On Thu, 7 May 2015 18:46:58 +0200
Jesper Nyg=C3=A5rds <jesper.nygards@gmail.com> wrote:
> I tried this:
> myfiles() {
>     emulate -L zsh
>     setopt LOCAL_OPTIONS EXTENDED_GLOB
>=20
>     local dir=3D"${1:a}/"
>=20
>     local filepattern=3D"${dir}**/*"
>=20
>     print -c ${~filepattern}
> }
>=20
> % cd /private/tmp/test\(1\)
> % myfiles src
> myfiles:8: no matches found: /private/tmp/test(1)/src/**/*

$dir contains a straight string with unquoted parentheses.  The
~filepattern then turns those parentheses into pattern characters.

I'm not sure why you want filepattern anyway, but

print -c ${dir}**/*

or

local filepattern=3D"**/*"
print -c ${dir}${~filepattern}

ought to work.  Otherwise you'll need to quote metacharacters in dir,
which is possible but should be unnecessary.

pws