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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
Cc: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: trivial question
Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2022 10:53:58 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH+w=7aHw1YOg-mJUv3-x35unsp-oZFN996dDKXdYr_EXvhnSA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9210d692-ed2c-c853-a5bb-23d9d6a097b2@eastlink.ca>

On Tue, Dec 6, 2022 at 7:28 AM Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca> wrote:
>
> If a word contains an unquoted instance of one of the characters ‘*’, ‘(’, ‘|’, ‘<’, ‘[’, or ‘?’, it is regarded as a pattern for filename generation, unless the GLOB option is unset. If the EXTENDED_GLOB option is set, the ‘^’ and ‘#’ characters also denote a pattern; otherwise they are not treated specially by the shell.

[...]

> Deus absit.  What I might like is some way of turning it all off.  Like unsetopt glob, yes?

Yes?  Re-read the doc excerpt you quoted above?

Generally, though, you don't want to do that.  Instead you should use
the "noglob" precommand modifier, e.g.

% noglob echo var[2]


  reply	other threads:[~2022-12-06 18:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-12-05  2:05 Ray Andrews
2022-12-05  2:52 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2022-12-05  5:20   ` Ray Andrews
2022-12-05  6:40     ` Lawrence Velázquez
2022-12-05 14:11       ` Ray Andrews
2022-12-06  2:12         ` Lawrence Velázquez
2022-12-06  2:29           ` Ray Andrews
2022-12-06  4:29             ` Bart Schaefer
2022-12-06  6:08               ` Lawrence Velázquez
2022-12-06 10:18               ` Roman Perepelitsa
2022-12-06 11:21                 ` Peter Stephenson
2022-12-06 15:28               ` Ray Andrews
2022-12-06 18:53                 ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
2022-12-07  0:02                 ` Lawrence Velázquez

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