Help on zsh grammar

Help on zsh grammar

[Dietmar Rempfer]

I am stuck with the following seemingly trivial problem:

Let us define the following function:

test () { echo \"$*\" }

Now, if I do ``test blabla'', I get "blabla", which is what I want.
But if I say e.g. ``test *.aux'', I would like to see "*.aux" printed out,
but instead I get the message: zsh: no matches found: *.aux.

So the problem is that I have to somehow prevent zsh from trying to expand
the result of $* any further. I have tried all kinds of means to achieve
this, but to no avail. (By the way, the above syntax works just fine in
bash, so I am beginning to wonder whether this is a bug in zsh...)

Any help would be highly appreciated...

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Re: Help on zsh grammar

[Andrej Borsenkow]

On Wed, 22 Jan 1997, Dietmar Rempfer wrote:

> Let us define the following function:
> 
> test () { echo \"$*\" }
> 
> Now, if I do ``test blabla'', I get "blabla", which is what I want.
> But if I say e.g. ``test *.aux'', I would like to see "*.aux" printed out,
> but instead I get the message: zsh: no matches found: *.aux.
> 

What about 
   test '*.aux' :-)

But really, you want

   unsetopt nomatch

% setopt nomatch
% test *.aux
zsh: no matches found: *.aux
% unsetopt nomatch
% test *.aux
*.aux
% whence -f test
test () {                                                                       
        echo $*                                                                 
}                                                                               

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