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

Re: recurse up

X-seq: zsh-users 13080
From: Anthony Fletcher <arif@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: recurse up
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:13:43 -0400
Cc: zsh-users@xxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <237967ef0807311256s3d06b26fu17f8804433d70e6@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Mail-followup-to: Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@xxxxxxxxx>, zsh-users@xxxxxxxxxx
Mailing-list: contact zsh-users-help@xxxxxxxxxx; run by ezmlm
References: <E1KOdxG-00042f-AR@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Perfect. Thanks.

                Anthony

On 31 Jul 2008 at 21:56:03, Mikael Magnusson wrote:
> 2008/7/31 Anthony Fletcher <arif@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > One can find files that live below the current directory via
> >
> >        ls **/README
> >
> > but how can one look for files in the parent, grand-parent, ...
> > directories?
> >
> > For example, suppose that the file /a/README exists and the current
> > directory is /a/b/c/d/e. Then, I'd like
> >
> >        ls .../README
> >
> > to glob expand to ../../../README.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
> 
> The man page says:
>        As a shorthand, `**/' is equivalent to `(*/)#'; note that this
> therefore  matches
>        files in the current directory as well as subdirectories.
> 
> So you can use (../)#README
> 
> -- 
> Mikael Magnusson

References:
- Re: recurse up
  - From: Mikael Magnusson

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