Re: Glob for specific length?

[Aaron Davies <aaron.davies@gmail.com>]

I can't get this to work. It's new in 4.3.5, right, so it should be in 4.3.9?

I don't understand the commandline you gave (is there a paste error in
it?) and when I try it, I get "zsh: unknown file attribute".

On Tuesday, November 23, 2010, Frank Terbeck  wrote:
> Aaron Davies wrote:
>> Is there a glob for files with names of e.g. exactly thirty
>> characters? sort of the equiv of /^.{30}$/
>
> Yes. See zshexpn(1) for (#cN,M).
>
> Example:
>
> % ls -lad ls -lad /?(#c3)
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root root   4096 Nov  2 23:31 /bin
> drwxr-xr-x  15 root root   3460 Nov 22 23:12 /dev
> drwxr-xr-x 161 root root  12288 Nov 22 14:20 /etc
> drwxr-xr-x  14 root root  12288 Oct 22 09:43 /lib
> drwxrwxr-x   8 root staff  4096 Nov 13 22:26 /mnt
> drwxr-xr-x   4 root root   4096 Oct  4 11:05 /opt
> drwxr-xr-x   4 root root   4096 Apr 29  2010 /srv
> drwxr-xr-x  12 root root      0 Oct 22 09:50 /sys
> drwxrwxrwt  22 root root  12288 Nov 23 09:15 /tmp
> drwxr-xr-x  15 root root   4096 Oct  3 12:31 /usr
> drwxr-xr-x  16 root root   4096 Jul  1 19:41 /var
>
> Regards, Frank
>
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Aaron Davies
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