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From: Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>
To: zsh-users@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: Zsh fails when Globing fails
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 10:44:53 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <25390.1122457493@csr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050727071943.GA3325@lxlabs.com>

Ligesh wrote:
>  I would like to know how to turn off the strict globbing feature in zsh. In 
> bash, if a globbing fails, the shell will simply pass the full string - metac
> haracters and all - directly to the program. But zsh bails out when globbing 
> fails. So currenlty I have to include all of them in single quotes to make it
>  work.
> 
>  IS there a config option which can get back the bash like behaviour?

You need "setopt nonomatch".  (Not "setopt nullglob": that will remove
the failed matches from the line altogether, which isn't what you want.)

pws


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-07-27  9:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1122445746.19346.ezmlm@sunsite.dk>
2005-07-27  7:19 ` Ligesh
2005-07-27  8:01   ` DervishD
2005-07-27  9:44   ` Peter Stephenson [this message]
2005-07-27  9:47 Ligesh
2005-07-27  9:49 ` Peter Stephenson
2005-07-27 19:56 ` DervishD

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