Perfect!  Your environment is identical to mine (as far as zsh an macOS
versions go).  The command in the example should work for you as well,
unless I misunderstood the question.

❯ uname -a
Darwin FOLSML-R5TYG8W 16.3.0 Darwin Kernel Version 16.3.0: Thu Nov 17
20:23:58 PST 2016; root:xnu-3789.31.2~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64

~
❯ zsh --version
zsh 5.3.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin16.3.0)

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Gabor

On Sun, Dec 25, 2016 at 12:49 PM Hoji, Akihiko <akh22@pitt.edu> wrote:

> I forgot to mention this.  I am using zsh 5.3.1
> (x86_64-apple-darwin16.3.0) and OS X 10.12.2
>
>
> AH
>
>
> > On Dec 25, 2016, at 3:45 PM, Gabor Maghera <gmaghera@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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
>
>