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Fri, 29 Jan 2021 10:47:34 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <7ea3f3f8-6aa9-bbab-40d7-2944b88e1709@eastlink.ca> In-Reply-To: <7ea3f3f8-6aa9-bbab-40d7-2944b88e1709@eastlink.ca> From: Bart Schaefer Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2021 10:47:23 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: (N) defaults to whole directory listing To: Ray Andrews Cc: Zsh Users Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Seq: 26438 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 Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 9:01 AM Ray Andrews wrote: > > That's about what I expected to hear. zsh can't be expected to feed > 'ls' with something that duplicates a non-existent file, it can only > remove the non-existent file thus leaving no argument Your problem is that (N) means NULL_GLOB, but you want it to mean CSH_NULL_GLOB. Have you considered using "setopt CSH_NULL_GLOB" and then not using (N) ...?