From: Stephane Chazelas <stephane@chazelas.org>
To: zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: Re: glob qualifier '-' doesn't work correctly on dangling symlinks
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2020 18:34:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200411173450.56nnznxtmil5oge3@chazelas.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200411151511.GA1708902@zira.vinc17.org>
2020-04-11 17:15:11 +0200, Vincent Lefevre:
[...]
> +zsh:10> ls -l file3
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 lefevre lefevre 5 2008-12-28 22:34:28 file3 -> file0
>
> file*(-W) should have no matches.
[...]
It is not really documented but kind of implied that on broken
symlinks, after -, we're still looking at the symlink instead of
the target (there's no target for us to look at anyway).
The manual has:
> ls -ld -- *(-@)
>
> lists all broken symbolic links, and
That's consistent with GNU find's -xtype l
Or:
find -L . -perm -2
--
Stephane
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-11 17:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-11 15:15 Vincent Lefevre
2020-04-11 17:34 ` Stephane Chazelas [this message]
2020-04-11 19:17 ` Vincent Lefevre
2020-04-11 20:37 ` Stephane Chazelas
2020-04-11 23:48 ` Vincent Lefevre
2020-04-12 1:21 ` Daniel Shahaf
2020-04-12 2:17 ` Vincent Lefevre
2020-04-12 7:09 ` Stephane Chazelas
2020-04-12 14:25 ` Vincent Lefevre
2020-04-12 17:34 ` Stephane Chazelas
2020-04-12 23:38 ` Vincent Lefevre
2020-04-13 14:22 ` Stephane Chazelas
2020-04-13 15:00 ` Bart Schaefer
2020-04-13 21:41 ` Vincent Lefevre
2020-04-14 6:18 ` Stephane Chazelas
2020-04-14 12:02 ` Daniel Shahaf
2020-04-14 12:38 ` Stephane Chazelas
2020-04-15 0:44 ` Daniel Shahaf
2020-04-15 9:17 ` Vincent Lefevre
2020-04-14 17:59 ` Vincent Lefevre
2020-04-12 12:48 ` Peter Stephenson
2020-04-12 14:31 ` Vincent Lefevre
2020-04-12 15:49 ` Peter Stephenson
2020-04-12 23:07 ` Vincent Lefevre
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