From: Wessel Dankers <wsl@cs.ruu.nl>
To: Geoff Wing <mason@primenet.com.au>
Cc: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: <..> ranges in globbing
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 1997 22:37:52 +0100 (MET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.971231222519.780B-100000@telamon.dyn.ml.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <slrn6ajnl9.pbb.mason@coral.primenet.com.au>
On 31 Dec 1997, Geoff Wing wrote:
> Heyla,
> % touch 101 111 121
> % ls <10-12>1
> ls: <10-12>1: No such file or directory
> Now, it's obvious why it's failing, since 101, 111 & 121 don't match the
> 10 to 12 range. My opinion is that it probably shouldn't fail in this case,
Indeed. Any glob experts around?
> but maybe a different operator or option/modifier should be used to get it
> to match. since there may be cases where someone wants to match on, say,
> ``<1-50>foo'' and not get, say, ``100foo'' matching.
<1-50>foo would never match 100foo, even with the behaviour described
above. Even though "<1-50>" could expand to `10', it still leaves an
unexplained `0'. "<1-50>foo" != "<1-50>0foo", so there is no need for an
extra operator.
--
Wessel Dankers
prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-12-31 21:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-12-31 5:56 Geoff Wing
1997-12-31 6:17 ` Geoff Wing
1998-01-12 11:13 ` PATCH: zsh 3.x: " Peter Stephenson
1998-01-12 16:16 ` Andrej Borsenkow
1998-01-12 16:59 ` Peter Stephenson
1998-01-12 17:10 ` Andrew Main
1998-01-12 17:50 ` Andrej Borsenkow
1997-12-31 21:37 ` Wessel Dankers [this message]
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