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Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.6.0 MIME-version: 1.0 In-reply-to: Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit Content-language: en-US X-Seq: 26298 Archived-At: X-Loop: zsh-users@zsh.org Errors-To: zsh-users-owner@zsh.org Precedence: list Precedence: bulk Sender: zsh-users-request@zsh.org X-no-archive: yes List-Id: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Owner: List-Archive: Archived-At: On 2021-01-02 10:05 a.m., Bart Schaefer wrote: > > As usual, that's not quite it. zsh is a woman.  You never quite have her figured out. > (#i) et al. are part of the pattern, > just like * and ? and [abc] would be. Conversely, (/N) and so on > refer to characteristics of any files (or their names) that are found > by scanning a directory with the pattern. > So it's '(#i)$1*'  forming a pattern and then this pattern is applied to whatever files '(/N)' spits out?  So first we'd get a list of directories and then we'd filter it with '(#i)$1*' ?  I'm not clear on the point at which we  know we are dealing with a list of files at all.  That could only be '(/N)' because otherwise '$1*' ... na ... nope ... what does the asterisk even mean outside a globbing context?  I don't get the parsing at all.