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Re: Suppressing "no matches found" Glob Message?

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From: DervishD <raul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Aaron Davies <agd12@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Suppressing "no matches found" Glob Message?
Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 12:42:22 +0200
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    Hi Aaron :)

 * Aaron Davies <agd12@xxxxxxxxxxxx> dixit:
> Is there an easy way to temporarily turn off the "no matches found" 
> message that a failed glob returns? I'm looking mainly for something 
> simple enough to use in an alias--I have an alias called "lspf" which 
> is defined as "ls **/*(.)", but I'd like to make it return something 
> custom if no such files exist. Redirecting stderr doesn't help, because 
> (I assume) the message is generated by zsh, not ls.

    Yes, change your pattern to, for example 'ls **/*(.N)'. The 'N'
means 'set option NULL_GLOB' for this pattern. This removes the
error.

    Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado

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