Reply to message «Re: Glob for specific length?», 
sent 18:11:46 23 November 2010, Tuesday
by Aaron Davies:

Maybe you should try
    setopt extendedglob && ls -lad /?(#c3)
instead.

Original message:
> I can't get this to work. It's new in 4.3.5, right, so it should be in
> 4.3.9?
> 
> I don't understand the commandline you gave (is there a paste error in
> it?) and when I try it, I get "zsh: unknown file attribute".
> 
> On Tuesday, November 23, 2010, Frank Terbeck  wrote:
> > Aaron Davies wrote:
> >> Is there a glob for files with names of e.g. exactly thirty
> >> characters? sort of the equiv of /^.{30}$/
> > 
> > Yes. See zshexpn(1) for (#cN,M).
> > 
> > Example:
> > 
> > % ls -lad ls -lad /?(#c3)
> > drwxr-xr-x   2 root root   4096 Nov  2 23:31 /bin
> > drwxr-xr-x  15 root root   3460 Nov 22 23:12 /dev
> > drwxr-xr-x 161 root root  12288 Nov 22 14:20 /etc
> > drwxr-xr-x  14 root root  12288 Oct 22 09:43 /lib
> > drwxrwxr-x   8 root staff  4096 Nov 13 22:26 /mnt
> > drwxr-xr-x   4 root root   4096 Oct  4 11:05 /opt
> > drwxr-xr-x   4 root root   4096 Apr 29  2010 /srv
> > drwxr-xr-x  12 root root      0 Oct 22 09:50 /sys
> > drwxrwxrwt  22 root root  12288 Nov 23 09:15 /tmp
> > drwxr-xr-x  15 root root   4096 Oct  3 12:31 /usr
> > drwxr-xr-x  16 root root   4096 Jul  1 19:41 /var
> > 
> > Regards, Frank
> > 
> > --
> > In protocol design, perfection has been reached not when there is
> > nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
> > 
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