From: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: trivial question
Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2022 21:20:54 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ca5c08fc-d81a-5e2c-d8ac-d4c60926ecaf@eastlink.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <63ae2364-1bba-405d-a1e6-4813df512340@app.fastmail.com>
On 2022-12-04 18:52, Lawrence Velázquez wrote:
> In this context, "var[2]" is recognized as a valid glob, and zsh
> attempts to generate filenames with it. If a file or directory
> matches, its name is inserted as usual.
I see. A file glob would be the last thing I'd be expecting, I'm
expecting it to be a nothing but a string. Anyway that's a clear
explanation.
> % zsh +o NOMATCH foo.zsh
> <var[2]><ain't><nothing>
>
That works. First experiments trying '(un)setopt NOMATCH' aren't
working but now that I know what to chew on I'll bag it.
> This is all explained in the manual.
> https://zsh.sourceforge.io/Doc/Release/Expansion.html#Filename-Generation
>
>
Thanks, as is so often the case, it's not having a clue where to look
that's that hard part. I'd not have dreamed this was a filename
generation issue.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-12-05 5:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-12-05 2:05 Ray Andrews
2022-12-05 2:52 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2022-12-05 5:20 ` Ray Andrews [this message]
2022-12-05 6:40 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2022-12-05 14:11 ` Ray Andrews
2022-12-06 2:12 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2022-12-06 2:29 ` Ray Andrews
2022-12-06 4:29 ` Bart Schaefer
2022-12-06 6:08 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2022-12-06 10:18 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2022-12-06 11:21 ` Peter Stephenson
2022-12-06 15:28 ` Ray Andrews
2022-12-06 18:53 ` Bart Schaefer
2022-12-07 0:02 ` Lawrence Velázquez
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