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From: Eric Cook <llua@gmx.com>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Cc: da_audiophile@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: Errors with my youtube-dl function in ~/.zshrc but I am unsure why
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2015 02:44:37 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55D03155.6010606@gmx.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <31314775.908080.1439706725493.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com>

On 08/16/2015 02:32 AM, John wrote:
> Why does zsh complain about no matches when I invoke my yt function and how can I correct the code?  Thanks!
> 
> From ~/.zshrc:
>  yt() { [[ -z "$1" ]] || noglob youtube-dl -q "$1" &; }
> 
> Output of command:
>  % yt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OC1JiAUr3ZU                                                     :(
>  zsh: no matches found: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OC1JiAUr3ZU
> 
> Please note that I am not subscribed to the ML so please cc me in the reply.
> 
You have to call the function with noglob to prevent zsh from thinking ? is a pattern character.

so:
% noglob yt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OC1JiAUr3ZU


  reply	other threads:[~2015-08-16  6:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-16  6:32 John
2015-08-16  6:44 ` Eric Cook [this message]
2015-08-16  6:54   ` John
2015-08-16 16:37     ` Bart Schaefer
2015-08-16 16:43       ` John
2015-08-16 17:23         ` Bart Schaefer
2015-08-17 21:58       ` zzapper
2015-08-16 16:43     ` Gowtham M
2015-08-16 21:54       ` Mikael Magnusson

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