Re: Filename Generation (again)

[jadamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Joel J. Adamson)]

Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx> writes:

> 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).


Thanks  -- that did it.  Now I understand why ...

Joel

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