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Sat, 02 Jan 2021 10:05:32 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <565cd2e7-c999-5735-4089-a56870713432@eastlink.ca> <20210102153039.4k35q567uteqeh2u@chazelas.org> <12be5cfe-bd40-ee0f-9d97-5579a81e7cc0@eastlink.ca> In-Reply-To: <12be5cfe-bd40-ee0f-9d97-5579a81e7cc0@eastlink.ca> From: Bart Schaefer Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2021 10:05:21 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: syntactic trivia To: Ray Andrews Cc: Zsh Users Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Seq: 26297 Archived-At: X-Loop: zsh-users@zsh.org Errors-To: zsh-users-owner@zsh.org Precedence: list Precedence: bulk Sender: zsh-users-request@zsh.org X-no-archive: yes List-Id: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Owner: List-Archive: Archived-At: On Sat, Jan 2, 2021 at 9:50 AM Ray Andrews wrote: > > '(#i)' is treating '$1*(/N)' simply as a string and doesn't care where > it came from. That's quite clear. As usual, that's not quite it. (#i) et al. are part of the pattern, just like * and ? and [abc] would be. Conversely, (/N) and so on refer to characteristics of any files (or their names) that are found by scanning a directory with the pattern.