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From: Frank Terbeck <ft@bewatermyfriend.org>
To: "zsh-users" <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: Globbing question (beginner)
In-Reply-To: <1281644885-sup-6838@linuxacer> (Bryan Hunt's message of "Thu, 12
	Aug 2010 21:43:59 +0100")
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Bryan Hunt wrote:
> On a recent twitter feed, was posted the following snippet - Intended
> for printing the name of the most recently modified file in a tree:
>
> print ./**/*(om[1])
>
> I used this as a way of printing the 3 most recently modified files in 
> a single directory:
>
> print ./*{(om[1]),(om[2]),(om[3])}
>
> But something troubles me, it looks ugly - surely there must exist a more
> elegant zshism ?

% print ./*(om[1,3])

Regards, Frank