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Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.3.0 Subject: Re: unintuitive bracketing with return value Content-language: en-US To: zsh-users@zsh.org References: <4b6eb0b7-ae82-a81f-6a70-784ffc1d39ff@eastlink.ca> <0ea47ef0-f039-41db-4514-b5b70045a9ef@gmx.com> <22aaa8cc-48e9-90fc-f006-e8534858816d@eastlink.ca> From: Ray Andrews In-reply-to: Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit X-Seq: 28230 Archived-At: X-Loop: zsh-users@zsh.org Errors-To: zsh-users-owner@zsh.org Precedence: list Precedence: bulk Sender: zsh-users-request@zsh.org X-no-archive: yes List-Id: List-Help: , List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Owner: List-Archive: On 2022-10-18 12:32, Lawrence Velázquez wrote: > is equivalent to this: > > [ "${${1}##*[*?]*}" ] && echo "no wildcards" > printenv "$1" || echo wildcards present > > which is not at all what you want. Quite right, I expressed it poorly.  Anyway the issue is closed, I understand it.  I wonder how old I'll have to be before I stop thinking in C.