Re: Zsh fails when Globing fails

[Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>]

Ligesh wrote:
>  I would like to know how to turn off the strict globbing feature in zsh. In 
> bash, if a globbing fails, the shell will simply pass the full string - metac
> haracters and all - directly to the program. But zsh bails out when globbing 
> fails. So currenlty I have to include all of them in single quotes to make it
>  work.
> 
>  IS there a config option which can get back the bash like behaviour?

You need "setopt nonomatch".  (Not "setopt nullglob": that will remove
the failed matches from the line altogether, which isn't what you want.)

pws


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