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From: Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>
To: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: bug in patterns used for filename expansion (e.g. a[b/c]d)
Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 13:59:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200710091259.l99Cxifg025637@news01.csr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071009124055.GH22340@prunille.vinc17.org>

Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> zsh 4.3.4 isn't POSIX-compliant concerning filename expansion and
> unmatched [. POSIX[*] says:
> 
>   For example, the pattern "a[b/c]d" does not match such pathnames as
>   abd or a/d. It only matches a pathname of literally a[b/c]d.
> 
> [*] http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/xcu_chap02.html#t
> ag_02_13_03
> 
> But with zsh 4.3.4:
> 
> prunille% ls a[b/c]d
> zsh: no matches found: a[b/c]d

As I said on the Austin group list, this isn't a bug.  It's controlled
by the option NOMATCH; you'll find that if zsh is in compatibility mode
that option is unset.

-- 
Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>                  Software Engineer
CSR PLC, Churchill House, Cambridge Business Park, Cowley Road
Cambridge, CB4 0WZ, UK                          Tel: +44 (0)1223 692070


  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-09 13:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-09 12:40 Vincent Lefevre
2007-10-09 12:59 ` Peter Stephenson [this message]
2007-10-09 14:12   ` Vincent Lefevre
2007-10-09 14:46     ` Peter Stephenson
2007-10-09 15:24     ` Bart Schaefer
2007-10-09 16:00       ` Vincent Lefevre
2007-10-09 15:00   ` Stephane Chazelas
2007-10-09 15:30     ` Bart Schaefer

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