From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17732 invoked from network); 6 Mar 1997 21:35:48 -0000 Received: from euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (list@130.207.146.50) by coral.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 6 Mar 1997 21:35:48 -0000 Received: (from list@localhost) by euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA00153; Thu, 6 Mar 1997 16:25:05 -0500 (EST) Resent-Date: Thu, 6 Mar 1997 16:25:05 -0500 (EST) Sender: mdb@cdc.noaa.gov To: gwing@primenet.com.au Cc: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Subject: Re: [3.0.2] L glob qualifier broken References: <19970306201923.17543.qmail@primenet.com.au> Organization: CIRES, University of Colorado X-Attribution: mb Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.105) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Mark Borges Date: 06 Mar 1997 14:27:28 -0700 In-Reply-To: gwing@primenet.com.au's message of Fri, 7 Mar 1997 07:19:23 +1100 (EST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: Gnus v5.4.17/XEmacs 20.1 Resent-Message-ID: <"fRwlJ1.0.K2.mOp7p"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/2969 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu >> On Fri, 7 Mar 1997 07:19:23 +1100 (EST), >> gwing (g) wrote: g> Mark Borges writes: g> : $ ls -al g> : total 928 g> : drwxr-xr-x 2 mdb climate 512 Mar 6 12:09 . g> : drwxr-xr-x 15 mdb climate 1536 Feb 5 11:52 .. g> : -rw-rw-r-- 1 mdb climate 13440 Mar 6 11:37 cv397.bin g> : -rw-r--r-- 1 mdb climate 14336 Mar 6 11:02 cv397.rtf g> : -rw-rw-r-- 1 mdb climate 9700 Mar 6 11:37 cv397.txt g> : -rw-r----- 1 mdb climate 4587 Mar 6 12:15 pubs.ref g> : -rw-r----- 1 mdb climate 4925 Mar 6 12:05 pubs.ref~ g> : -rw-r--r-- 1 mdb climate 6588 Mar 6 12:04 pubs0.ref g> : $ ls *(Lk+5) g> : cv397.bin cv397.rtf cv397.txt pubs0.ref g> :i.e., correct. But, g> : $ ls *(Lk-5) g> : /usr/local/bin/ls: *(Lk-5): No such file or directory g> :Shouldn't it have returned the other two files? g> No. g> Oh, do you want a reason? [ explanation elided ] OK, 1k != 1000. doh! g> The complement to ``ls *(Lk+5)'' is ``ls *(Lk-5,Lk5)'' Hmm, a some sort of "less/greater than or equal to" flag would be neat here. Though I don't know what symbol would be even possible. Anyway, thanks for the explanation. -- -mb-