Re: Brace Expansion

[Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>]

zzapper wrote:
> > ls -l *.{cfm,htm,html}
>
> >\ls -t *.{html,cfm,htm}
> zsh: no matches found: *.htm

The correct way to do this is
  ls -l *.(cfm|htm|html)
Then you'll only get `no matches' if none of the variants matched, which
is presumably what you want.

Brace expansion is not part of globbing; it generates `*.html *.cfm
*.htm' before the patterns are examined.

-- 
Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>                  Software Engineer
CSR Ltd., Science Park, Milton Road,
Cambridge, CB4 0WH, UK                          Tel: +44 (0)1223 692070


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