From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4056 invoked from network); 10 Jun 1997 15:10:28 -0000 Received: from euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (list@130.207.146.50) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 10 Jun 1997 15:10:28 -0000 Received: (from list@localhost) by euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA15304; Tue, 10 Jun 1997 11:01:53 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 11:01:23 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 11:05:11 -0400 (EDT) From: "Timothy J. Luoma" X-Sender: luomat@cc344191-a Reply-To: luomat@peak.org To: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu Subject: ? in filename matching Message-ID: Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep X-FTP: ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/ X-URL: http://www.next.peak.org/~luomat MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Resent-Message-ID: <"QnPk.0.yj3.3nMdp"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/891 X-Loop: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu I just made a bunch of changes to my setopts and one of them seems to have a side effect I didn't realize or understand. If I have a bunch of files file.1234 file.abdf file.MEME and I want to match them all, I thought I did 'ls file.????' (to get just the files named 'file.' with 4 characters after the .) now I get 'file.???? not found' I know this is going to be super easy and you'll wonder why I couldn't figure it out, but there it is.... TjL -- TjL / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ "The best things in life are made into inferior versions and bundled with the latest Microsoft systems" NeXT bookmarks: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/bookmarks.html