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To: "Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
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Subject: Re: Null tilde expansions?
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From: Greg Badros <gjb@cs.washington.edu>
Date: 07 Oct 1998 08:00:14 -0700
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"Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@brasslantern.com> writes:

> On Oct 6, 11:16am, Greg Badros wrote:
> } Subject: Null tilde expansions?
> }
> } Is there any way to make ~notauser not cause an error (similar to the
> } null globbing option)?
> 
> unsetopt badpattern
> users=(`ypcat group  | awk -F: '/^oo_gang\>/ { printf $4 }' | tr , ' '`)
> dirs=(~$^users)
> dirs=(${(M)dirs:#~)

This doesn't work for me with Zsh 3.1.4 (few if any patches) or Zsh 3.0.5:

% unsetopt badpattern
% echo ~notauser
zsh: no such user or named directory: notauser

The badpattern option does look like the right thing, but perhaps it's broken?

Thanks for the response...

Greg