Re: trivial question

[Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>]

On 2022-12-05 18:12, Lawrence Velázquez wrote:
> A decent starting point is to assume that unquoted punctuation is
> special until you verify otherwise (assuming you don't actually
> want the special behavior).  Even then you might as well quote it
> to avoid confusing your future self.
Sure, I quote almost everything anyway.
>
> Presumably you've internalized that "*" is a globbing character,
> so you wouldn't be confused if this printed a bunch of filenames:
>
>      echo *.txt

I may as well admit it: I didn't know you could do that.  Nuts, I just 
never  tried it.  One echo's strings.  And true to form:

$ echo no-such-file*

... returns nothing, just like my initial example.

>
> Once you know that "[" is also a globbing character, it should cease
> to be confusing.  That said, remembering all the globbing characters
> can be a challenge, especially the ones you don't use regularly.

Ok, this opens the door to clarity.  I just need to know when zsh is 
going to attempt globbing and keep on the watch for that.  * ? [] (but 
only paired!) what else?  Man!  To think that I'm just learning this 
now.  It's been an educational day.