Re: Null tilde expansions?

["Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@brasslantern.com>]

On Oct 7,  5:11pm, Peter Stephenson wrote:
} Subject: Re: Null tilde expansions?
}
} I think the appropriate option is 'nomatch'.  (Sounds OK to me, it's a
} match that's failing rather than a pattern that's been typed wrongly.)

I first tried it with just no_nomatch, and got an error.  However, now
that I fool with it again, I must have mistyped something else, because
it is indeed only no_nomatch that's required.

On Oct 7,  8:41am, Greg Badros wrote:
} Subject: Re: Null tilde expansions?
}
}  > dirs=(${(M)dirs:#~)
} 
} Besides the obvious typo of a closing paren for a closing brace, there
} are three problems:
} 
} 1) I want the (R)est, not the match, right?
} 2) The ~ needs to be escaped, otherwise it'll get expanded.
} 3) The pattern after the # needs to match the whole word, so it needs a
} trailing *.

Bleah.  This is what I get for testing stuff on a machine where the only
home directory is my own, so the expansion of the only valid username
"accidentally" matches the expansion of ~.

Yes, you're right.  Or just ${dirs##~*}, in which the ~ is not expanded
in the first place.

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