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From: Zach Riggle <zachriggle@gmail.com>
To: Zsh Users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Compound Glob Specifiers
Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2021 17:03:36 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMP9c5kG4cR7QxMu93cLeZn_4BmZht=toAijxj4GvnKbYMm5Gw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

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I expect this is a case of "you're holding it wrong", but I figure it's
worth asking what the right way to do this is...

I want to glob the equivalent of */*/somefile (not **/foo, specifically two
directories deep).

However, I do NOT want the glob to match if any of the directory components
are a symlink.

*(/) is the glob specifier for directories [1]

It would then follow that *(/)/*(/)/somefile would match dir/dir/somefile
and not dir/link/somefile.

This is not the case -- even *(/)/ (i.e. appending a trailing slash to all
directories) do not work out-of-the-box as one might expect.

I've read through 14.8 Filename Generation [2] as best I can (my favorite
hack being the NTREF=reffile bit) but haven't found anything that suggests
how one might do this.

[1]
https://zsh.sourceforge.io/Doc/Release/Expansion.html#index-BARE_005fGLOB_005fQUAL_002c-use-of
[2]
https://zsh.sourceforge.io/Doc/Release/Expansion.html#Filename-Generation

*Zach Riggle*

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             reply	other threads:[~2021-11-08 23:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-11-08 23:03 Zach Riggle [this message]
2021-11-09  3:04 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2021-11-09  3:30 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-11-09  7:52 ` Mikael Magnusson

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