KSH style globbing

KSH style globbing

[Stefan Troeger]

Hi,

I have a question regarding ksh-like globbing. I have a
directory with the files `foo', `bar' and `com' and want to
display every file in it that does not contain an a. In ksh or
bash I'd use

ls !(*a*)

for it. If I do a

setopt KSH_GLOB
ls !(*a*)

in zsh it says

zsh: number expected

What am I doing wrong?

Ciao,
	Stefan

Re: KSH style globbing

[Bart Schaefer]

On Nov 6,  8:54pm, Stefan Troeger wrote:
} Subject: KSH style globbing
}
} setopt KSH_GLOB
} ls !(*a*)
} 
} zsh: number expected
} 
} What am I doing wrong?

You need

	setopt KSH_GLOB NO_BARE_GLOB_QUAL

Otherwise, the trailing parens are interpreted as a glob qualifier before
they have a chance to be considered as a ksh pattern.  This ought to be
documented better.

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