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From: Gabor Maghera <gmaghera@gmail.com>
To: "Hoji, Akihiko" <akh22@pitt.edu>,
	"zsh-users@zsh.org" <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: newbie rm --^file question
Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2016 20:45:39 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOzw3LYNWwxuDgkJJM99PTRvZPjcVMLBUrq8dL4S5kvkVdJ1rg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D6F66860-3528-4A5F-B5E0-7A25C1E6458E@pitt.edu>

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Not sure if it's some nuance with different versions of zsh we're running,
but I needed to "setopt exended_glob" (with the underscore).  But I think
the main issue here is the globbing syntax.

Have a look at a working example here: https://asciinema.org/a/97273

Merry Christmas,
Gabor



On Sun, Dec 25, 2016 at 11:22 AM Hoji, Akihiko <akh22@pitt.edu> wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
> I am trying to delete all the files except a few files having the same
> file extension.  I did the following;
>
> setopt extended glob
> rm -rf —^file.ext.*
>
> This gives an error message, “zsh, no matches found:”
>
> I would appreciate a poster as to what I am doing wrong.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> AH

  reply	other threads:[~2016-12-25 20:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-25 19:22 Hoji, Akihiko
2016-12-25 20:45 ` Gabor Maghera [this message]
2016-12-25 20:49   ` Hoji, Akihiko
2016-12-25 20:51     ` Gabor Maghera
2016-12-25 21:10 ` Bart Schaefer
2016-12-25 21:49   ` Akihiko Hohji
2016-12-25 22:47     ` Gabor Maghera
2016-12-25 23:02       ` Akihiko Hohji
2016-12-27 20:23         ` Roman Neuhauser

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