Globbing bug?

Globbing bug?

[Hrvoje Niksic]

I have found the following problem with globbing of symlinks pointing
to a directory:
Script started on Fri Jun 07 20:15:00 1996
jagor% ls -l
total 4
lrwxrwxrwx   1 hniksic  f2             1 Jun  7 20:14 somefile -> /
-rw-r--r--   1 hniksic  f2            43 Jun  7 20:15 typescript
jagor% cd s*e/
cd: no such file or directory: s*e/
jagor% cd s*e
jagor% /bin/pwd
/

That is, when symlink points to a directory, it will not be globbed if
it has a trailing /. This is especially annoying when writing
something like:
jagor% cd site-lisp/g*a/lisp
and it fails (although g*a completes uniquely by itself in site-lisp
directory), because gnus-beta is a symbolic link to gnus-5.2.10.

Ksh and bash do not seem to have this problem, whereas plain sh
behaves like zsh.

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hniksic@srce.hr              |  Student of electrical engineering
hniksic@fly.cc.fer.hr        |  University of Zagreb, Croatia
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Re: Globbing bug?

[Zoltan Hidvegi]

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Re: Globbing bug?

[Hrvoje Niksic]

Zoltan Hidvegi (hzoli@cs.elte.hu) wrote:
> OK. The patch below fixes this.  Now pattern/ is equivalent to pattern(-/)
> instead of pattenr(/).  This only affects leading dots in a filename glob
> pattern.

Thanks for the patch!

> > jagor% cd site-lisp/g*a/lisp
> > and it fails (although g*a completes uniquely by itself in site-lisp
> > directory), because gnus-beta is a symbolic link to gnus-5.2.10.
> This is completely unrelated to the previous problem and it should not
> fail.  For me this works so if it fails for you, please tell me more about
> it.

It doesn't. I must have made a mistake.

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hniksic@srce.hr              |  Student of electrical engineering
hniksic@fly.cc.fer.hr        |  University of Zagreb, Croatia
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Re: Globbing bug?

[Zoltan Hidvegi]

> instead of pattenr(/).  This only affects leading dots in a filename glob
> pattern.

Oops.  I wanted to write trailing slashes of course.  Perhaps my
subconsciousnes wanted to tell something :-).

Zoltan