(Moved from -users)

On Tue, Apr 30, 2024 at 11:15 AM Bart Schaefer
<schaefer@brasslantern.com> wrote:
>
> I suspect there's no explicit reasoning in zmv.  **/ is specifically
> handled in the case of zmv -w/-W (workers/27247) but not for '$f'
> placeholders.
>
> It works if you do this:
>
> zmv -n '(**/)f?' '$f.txt'
>
> Whether it should also work without the parens and also without the -w
> option is unclear.

Attached patch makes it work without the parens.  Is this within spec?
 It's hard to tell from the solitary '$f' example in the doc.