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Tue, 18 Oct 2022 13:14:19 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <4b6eb0b7-ae82-a81f-6a70-784ffc1d39ff@eastlink.ca> <0ea47ef0-f039-41db-4514-b5b70045a9ef@gmx.com> <22aaa8cc-48e9-90fc-f006-e8534858816d@eastlink.ca> In-Reply-To: From: Bart Schaefer Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2022 13:14:08 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: unintuitive bracketing with return value To: =?UTF-8?Q?Lawrence_Vel=C3=A1zquez?= Cc: Ray Andrews , zsh-users@zsh.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Seq: 28229 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: On Tue, Oct 18, 2022 at 1:12 PM Bart Schaefer wrote: > > describing the bracketing as if it were this: Except for my copy-paste error, of course. Put a "[" inside the "{". > { "${${1}##*[*?]*}" ] && > echo "no wildcards"; printenv "$1" } || echo wildcards present > > which would do exactly what he wants.