From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from gatech.edu (gatech.edu [130.207.244.244]) by werple.mira.net.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id PAA13111 for ; Tue, 19 Sep 1995 15:03:37 +1000 Received: from math (math.skiles.gatech.edu) by gatech.edu with SMTP id AA19694 (5.65c/Gatech-10.0-IDA); Tue, 19 Sep 1995 00:39:51 -0400 Received: by math (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA05467; Tue, 19 Sep 1995 00:33:34 -0400 Resent-Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 22:35:57 -0600 Old-Return-Path: Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 22:35:57 -0600 Message-Id: <9509190435.AA14918@charney.cdc.noaa.gov> From: Mark Borges To: hari@sybase.com Cc: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Subject: Re: ** bug? In-Reply-To: <9509190209.AA00985@mach2.sybgate.sybase.com> References: <9509190209.AA00985@mach2.sybgate.sybase.com> Organization: CIRES, University of Colorado X-Attribution: mb Resent-Message-Id: <"Hxk6q1.0.LL1.TWaNm"@math> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/389 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu >> Hariharan Dhandapani(HD) wrote on Mon, 18 Sep 1995 19:09:29 +0800: HD> seems like there is a bug with the ** operator: HD> $ ls HD> api@ poll@ HD> api and poll are actually pointers to directories HD> $ ls **/*.c HD> zsh: no matches found: **/*.c HD> what gives? isn't this a bug? No, it's documented to work this way -- see zshexpn(1) (or search for `**' if using an older version of zsh). To get what you want, use the form ***/*.c -mb-