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