Re: Suppressing failed glob patterns

[Thorsten Kampe <thorsten@thorstenkampe.de>]

* Michael Hernandez (Thu, 4 Dec 2008 16:26:37 -0500)> 
> On Dec 4, 2008, at 3:55 PM, Thorsten Kampe wrote:
> > I like the default in zsh for failed glob patterns (which errors  
> > when no
> > file matches the pattern).
> >
> > For example:
> > % rm file1.* file2.*
> > zsh: no matches found: file1.*
> >
> > zsh never executes rm (which is fine). Additionially I would like to  
> > get
> > rid of the error message in a script. Unfortunately redirecting stderr
> > does not work (because rm is never executed). Is there a way to keep  
> > the
> > default and to suppress the error?!
> >
> > Thorsten
> >
> 
> 
> I replied but didn't read carefully enough the first time, I see you  
> want to keep your default value, so maybe you don't want to setopt  
> no_nomatch. If this is the case you could start the function that  
> calls the rm command with:
> 
> setopt local_options no_nomatch

Yes, that's what I've been using until now. The problem is that I don't 
know what a program that expects an argument will do if it receives no 
argument. It might simply print help or await input from stdin. So the 
default is for me exactly the best. Only the zsh's error is a kind of a 
cosmetic problem in script (while interactively it's of course what I 
want).

Thorsten