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From: Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: globbing problem
Date: Sun, 03 Mar 2013 15:40:57 +0100
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	(Manfred Lotz's message of "Sun, 3 Mar 2013 09:29:08 +0100")
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Manfred Lotz <manfred.lotz@arcor.de> writes:

> function lsd() {
> 	if (( $# > 0 )); then
> 	  ls -d "$*"(/)
> 	else
> 	  ls -d *(/)
> 	fi
> }
>
>
> alias lsd='noglob lsd'

> $ lsd m*
> ls: cannot access m*(/): No such file or directory
>
> doesn't work.
>
> What is my mistake?

You need to force globbing.  Try this:

lsd() { local -a pat; pat=(${^*:-*}'(/N)'); ls -d ${~pat} }

(How to do it without a temporary variable?)

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Christian Neukirchen  <chneukirchen@gmail.com>  http://chneukirchen.org