Zsh Mailing List Archive Messages sorted by: Reverse Date, Date, Thread, Author

Re: Filename Generation (again)

X-seq: zsh-users 11651
From: Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>
To: zsh-users@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Filename Generation (again)
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 08:09:10 +0100
In-reply-to: <87odic43e2.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Mailing-list: contact zsh-users-help@xxxxxxxxxx; run by ezmlm
References: <87odic43e2.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Joel J. Adamson wrote:
> ----------------------------------------
> doit:1: no matches found: /home/joel/data/*generic*~*~
> ----------------------------------------

Assuming, of course, there are files there, the obvious possibility
is that the extended_glob option isn't set.

You might want to sanitize the options you are using in the function
by setting:

emulate -L zsh
setopt extendedglob

right at the start of the function (adding anything else you need).

-- 
Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>                  Software Engineer
CSR PLC, Churchill House, Cambridge Business Park, Cowley Road
Cambridge, CB4 0WZ, UK                          Tel: +44 (0)1223 692070



To access the latest news from CSR copy this link into a web browser:  http://www.csr.com/email_sig.php

To get further information regarding CSR, please visit our Investor Relations page at http://ir.csr.com/csr/about/overview

Follow-Ups:
- Re: Filename Generation (again)
  - From: Joel J. Adamson

References:
- Filename Generation (again)
  - From: Joel J. Adamson

Messages sorted by: Reverse Date, Date, Thread, Author