Re: cml invocation vs script output diff

[Daniel Shahaf <d.s@daniel.shahaf.name>]

jdh wrote on Tue, Jan 05, 2021 at 10:46:13 +0800:
> 
> zsh vers: zsh 5.8 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
> 
> 
> Bug: Different results from command line, cml invocation, versus a zsh script file.
> Test case to demostrate this follows:
> 
> I don't think that zsh is descending down into . prefixed directories in the script version even with a explict -a given as ls's argument.
> 
> ---------
> 
> mkdir .hiddendir
> touch .hiddendir/tilde-file~
> 
> ls **/*~    Recursively find all tilde ending filenames starting with the cwd.
> 
>    This above works as it should, but,
> 
>  echo '#! /bin/zsh \n ls **/*~'   >lstildefiles
>  chmod 700 lstildefiles
>  ./lsttildefiles
> 
> Doesn't work and returns:
> 
> 	$ ./lstildefiles:2: no matches found: **/*~
> 
> 
> This shouldn't happen.  Why does invoking the same command with the same agrumetns from within a script and the command line differ.  The script version is clearly not functioning properly in my opinion.  But I can't figure out why.  ?

Probably your zshrc sets the GLOB_DOTS option.  zshrc isn't used by scripts,
only by interactive shells.  Diff the output of `setopt` (without arguments)
between the two cases.