Sorry, thought I had extendedglob set, works fine. On Thu, Apr 21, 2022 at 3:37 PM Jim wrote: > Thanks everyone for the responses. > > On Thu, Apr 21, 2022 at 2:15 PM Bart Schaefer > wrote: > >> On Thu, Apr 21, 2022 at 11:51 AM Mikael Magnusson >> wrote: >> > >> > On 4/21/22, Jim wrote: >> > > >> > > % A=(${:-.z*(.N)}) >> > > % A=(${A:#*(comp|hist)*}) >> > > >> > > Is there a way to nest the two? >> > >> > There is a certain order that parameter expansions and globs happen >> > relative to eachother [...] In short, no(t as far as I know). >> >> Correct, this can't be done as a nested expansion, except by invoking >> a subshell to perform the globbing. >> >> A=(${${(@f):-$(print -rl .z*(.N))}:#*(comp|hist)*}) >> > > Came fairly close on this one while trying different ways. Didn't use a > print > command. :-( > > However, with extendedglob this specific example can be done entirely >> with globbing: >> >> A=( .z*~*(comp|hist)*(.N) ) >> > > Is there a typo or something missing here? This didn't find any files when > I > cut and pasted it in a shell. > > ZSH_VERSION 5.8 > ZSH_PATCHLEVEL debian/5.8-6+deb11u1 > > Again, thanks, > > Jim Murphy >