From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4521 invoked from network); 9 Mar 2005 12:22:01 -0000 Received: from news.dotsrc.org (HELO a.mx.sunsite.dk) (130.225.247.88) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 9 Mar 2005 12:22:01 -0000 Received: (qmail 91290 invoked from network); 9 Mar 2005 12:21:55 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by a.mx.sunsite.dk with SMTP; 9 Mar 2005 12:21:55 -0000 Received: (qmail 24392 invoked by alias); 9 Mar 2005 12:21:46 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 8570 Received: (qmail 24377 invoked from network); 9 Mar 2005 12:21:45 -0000 Received: from news.dotsrc.org (HELO a.mx.sunsite.dk) (130.225.247.88) by sunsite.dk with SMTP; 9 Mar 2005 12:21:45 -0000 Received: (qmail 90145 invoked from network); 9 Mar 2005 12:21:45 -0000 Received: from main.gmane.org (HELO ciao.gmane.org) (80.91.229.2) by a.mx.sunsite.dk with SMTP; 9 Mar 2005 12:21:37 -0000 Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1D90Al-0003xc-T2 for zsh-users@sunsite.dk; Wed, 09 Mar 2005 13:20:19 +0100 Received: from m178.net81-67-112.noos.fr ([81.67.112.178]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 09 Mar 2005 13:20:19 +0100 Received: from hugo by m178.net81-67-112.noos.fr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 09 Mar 2005 13:20:19 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: zsh-users@sunsite.dk From: Hugo Haas Subject: Expansion of patterns Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 13:04:24 +0100 Message-ID: <87d5u958l3.fsf@jibboom.natpar.dnsalias.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: m178.net81-67-112.noos.fr User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:5IjSv/kqp6MvODwaKisioqoO1eI= Sender: news X-Gmane-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Gmane-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: gcszu-zsh-users@m.gmane.org X-MailScanner-To: zsh-users@sunsite.dk X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2 on a.mx.sunsite.dk X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=6.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.0.2 X-Spam-Hits: -2.6 Hi. I've been wanting to expand patterns that do not match filenames. For example: echo a1 a2 a3 could be (hopefully) written: echo a[1-3] However, I get: zsh: no matches found: a[1-3] I sure can do: (for i in $(seq 1 3); do echo a$i; done)| xargs echo but it clearly isn't as simple, and it works for simple cases but wouldn't work in complex ones. Is there any way to expand patterns like this in a simple way? Cheers, Hugo -- Hugo Haas - http://larve.net/people/hugo/