Re: Inconsistent behavior with comparisons and recursive glob patterns

[Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com>]

> On 05/05/2024 07:33 BST Alan Wagner-Krankel <awk@awkwork.com> wrote:
> I think there's some risk that "... '*' may match one or more '/'
> characters" could be misinterpreted as "... '*' may *only* match one
> or more '/' characters".
> 
> Maybe:
> the patterns `tt(**/)' and `tt(***/)' behave the same as `tt(*/)',
> i.e. as a standard wildcard tt(*) that could match any set of zero or
> more characters (including `tt(/)'), followed by a `tt(/)'.

Hmm, I'd perhaps limit that to only the information we wish to add to
keep it simple...

pws

diff --git a/Doc/Zsh/cond.yo b/Doc/Zsh/cond.yo
index 000e576..c58aea6 100644
--- a/Doc/Zsh/cond.yo
+++ b/Doc/Zsh/cond.yo
@@ -241,7 +241,11 @@ ifnzman(\
 noderef(Filename Generation)\
 )\
 , but there is no special behaviour
-of `tt(/)' nor initial dots, and no glob qualifiers are allowed.
+of `tt(/)' nor initial dot, and the patterns `tt(**/)' and `tt(***/)' behave
+the same as `tt(*/)', in which the `tt(*)' has its standard behaviour
+but may also match further `tt(/)' characters.  Also, no bare glob
+qualifiers are allowed, though the form `((#q)var(...))' is allowed as
+shown above.
 
 In each of the above expressions, if
 var(file) is of the form `tt(/dev/fd/)var(n)',