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* Oddity?
@ 2015-02-09 17:55 zzapper
  2015-02-09 19:46 ` Oddity? ZyX
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: zzapper @ 2015-02-09 17:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: zsh-users

Hi


 e(){echo $1} && e (g)

zsh: missing delimiter for 'g' glob qualifier





e (G) is ok

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* Re: Oddity?
  2015-02-09 17:55 Oddity? zzapper
@ 2015-02-09 19:46 ` ZyX
  2015-02-09 22:35   ` Oddity? zzapper
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: ZyX @ 2015-02-09 19:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: zzapper, zsh-users

09.02.2015, 20:57, "zzapper" <david@rayninfo.co.uk>:
> Hi
>
>  e(){echo $1} && e (g)

This command is too odd. Just

    echo (g)

does exactly the same. You must read `man zshexpn`, section “Glob Qualifiers”: `g` qualifier stands for “files owned by group ID” and expects group ID as an argument and `G` qualifier is like `(g[$EGID])` (assuming parameter expansion works here (it actually does not)) and takes no parameters.

>
> zsh: missing delimiter for 'g' glob qualifier
>
> e (G) is ok

Do `setopt nullglob` or `setopt nomatch` and you will see that this is *not* OK because `(G)` matches nothing. The only reason this may echo `(G)` is that you have enabled POSIX shell-like behaviour which substitutes glob pattern with itself literally if there are no matches.

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* Re: Oddity?
  2015-02-09 19:46 ` Oddity? ZyX
@ 2015-02-09 22:35   ` zzapper
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: zzapper @ 2015-02-09 22:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: zsh-users

ZyX <kp-pav@yandex.ru> wrote in news:617731423511180@web28m.yandex.ru:

>  echo (g)

Yeah it's from

ls -l *(.g:root:)

the error from is more revealing
ls (g::)
zsh: unknown group

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