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Subject: Re: assigning parameters and globbing 
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2006 10:24:16 +0100
From: Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>
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Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> What do you suggest to set an environment BLAH to *([-1]) or something
> similar (globbing that leads to a single filename -- which may contain
> special characters)?

You can, if you like, use glob_assign:

  setopt GLOB_ASSIGN
  export BLAH
  BLAH=*([-1])

but I'd probably use an intermediate array.

  local -a files
  files=(*)
  export BLAH=${files[-1]}

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