Re: Suppressing failed glob patterns

[Frank Terbeck <ft@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thorsten Kampe <thorsten@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> I like the default in zsh for failed glob patterns (which errors when no 
> file matches the pattern). 
> 
> For example:
> % rm file1.* file2.*                                                          
> zsh: no matches found: file1.*
> 
> zsh never executes rm (which is fine). Additionially I would like to get 
> rid of the error message in a script. Unfortunately redirecting stderr 
> does not work (because rm is never executed). Is there a way to keep the 
> default and to suppress the error?!

Check these settings: <http://zshwiki.org/home/options/expn>

And also see what the difference between

  % echo non-existing-file.*
and
  % echo non-existing-file.*(N)

is.

That's documented in 'man zshexpn' and a list of available modifiers
and flags is also in <http://www.bash2zsh.com/zsh_refcard/refcard.pdf>.

Regards, Frank

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