Re: Glob and grep

[Nick Cross <zsh@goots.org>]

On 16/12/2019 23:18, dana wrote:
> On 16 Dec 2019, at 16:44, Nick Cross <zsh@goots.org> wrote:
>> While I found information about ^(xxx) it wasn't clear how to have multiple
>> expressions to ignore.
> 
> In addition to Mikael's suggestion you can also use the x~y syntax, which i
> personally find less confusing, and is effectively `m/x/ && !m/y/` in Perl:
> 
>    **/*.groovy~*/(test|target)/*
>    # or you can chain multiple y patterns
>    **/*.groovy~*/test/*~*/target/*
> 
> (Note that, like zshexpn(1) says, / and . are not special in the y pattern)
> 
> On 16 Dec 2019, at 16:44, Nick Cross <zsh@goots.org> wrote:
>> Am I right in thinking I can add (.) to e.g. *.groovy to ensure I only
>> search for files as well ?
> 
> Use (-.) if you also want to match symlinks to files (which is common)
> 
> dana
> 


Firstly, thanks everyone for the replies. The '~' syntax is interesting; 
so effectively the negated options are put at the end.

Nick