From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 12:02:18 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: <199901261102.MAA20746@beta.informatik.hu-berlin.de> From: Sven Wischnowsky To: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk Subject: Btw.: glob-qualifier X-Mailing-List: 5010 With all this discussion about documentation going on... When implementing the glob-sort qualifier I first wanted to use 'o' but then found out that this is already used and undocumented. The effect of `(o)' is to match only files whose modes (all twelve bits) exactly match `'. Shouldn't we either document this or first make it a bit more usable and then document it? E.g. we could make it take the next four characters which should be octal digits or `.'s, where `.' means that in this three-bit group any value is accepted (since this is a shell we should probably better use `?', or an as yet unused character and allow the argument to have a variable length). Bye Sven P.S.: Yes, there are still several unused characters in glob-qualifiers, how comes that? -- Sven Wischnowsky wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de