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From: andykluger@gmail.com
To: zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: Bug? Unexpected globbing duplicates
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2022 12:31:23 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAO4D9Ekp5MVe4=6UDwuEMwt5ndRpK4-GaPz7RiDi0q-oHCxAxA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Hello!

I encountered a surprising result while using a glob expression, with
extended globs enabled, of duplicate resulting elements, where the
number of duplicates is proportional to the filesystem depth of that
result.

The expression I first observed this with pointlessly combines **/***/:

% vids=((#i)**/***/*(.mp4)(#q.))

Simply demonstrated, without extendedglob or qualifiers or flags:

% mkdir -p foo/bar/baz
% print -rl -- **/***/*

foo
foo/bar
foo/bar
foo/bar/baz
foo/bar/baz
foo/bar/baz

And thanks to danielsh and dana for pointing out, with **/**/:

% print -rl -- **/**/*

foo
foo/bar
foo/bar
foo/bar/baz
foo/bar/baz
foo/bar/baz

I know now there's no reason to have the extra leading **/ in either
case, and this problem does not present when done properly like that.

Thanks for reading,
Andy


             reply	other threads:[~2022-02-12 20:31 UTC|newest]

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2022-02-12 20:31 andykluger [this message]
2022-02-12 23:31 ` Bart Schaefer

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