From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21288 invoked from network); 2 Sep 1999 15:02:21 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 2 Sep 1999 15:02:21 -0000 Received: (qmail 8628 invoked by alias); 2 Sep 1999 15:02:01 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 2552 Received: (qmail 8603 invoked from network); 2 Sep 1999 15:02:00 -0000 From: "Bart Schaefer" Message-Id: <990902150120.ZM24598@candle.brasslantern.com> Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 15:01:20 +0000 In-Reply-To: <19990902121532.A24349@youkaidi.irisa.fr> Comments: In reply to Hubert Canon "Re: strange glob expansion" (Sep 2, 12:15pm) References: <19990901101116.A8076@youkaidi.irisa.fr> <990901174608.ZM19896@candle.brasslantern.com> <19990902121532.A24349@youkaidi.irisa.fr> X-Mailer: Z-Mail (5.0.0 30July97) To: Hubert Canon Subject: Re: strange glob expansion Cc: zsh-users@sunsite.auc.dk MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sep 2, 12:15pm, Hubert Canon wrote: } Subject: Re: strange glob expansion } } Bart Schaefer =E9crivait : } > % echo .scwm/{chan*,**/scwmrc*} } = } Not exactly. The { , } construct is somewhat different than ( | ) : } for example, when one of the partterns fails, the whole expression } fails. That's what `setopt cshnullglob` is for. I can't imagine why anyone woul= d not want that option when the shell is interactive; brace expansion is practically useless without it. -- = Bart Schaefer Brass Lantern Enterprises http://www.well.com/user/barts http://www.brasslantern.com