Re: Suppressing failed glob patterns

[Michael Hernandez <sequethin@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Dec 4, 2008, at 3:55 PM, Thorsten Kampe wrote:

> Hi,
>
> 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?!
>
> Thorsten


I replied but didn't read carefully enough the first time, I see you  
want to keep your default value, so maybe you don't want to setopt  
no_nomatch. If this is the case you could start the function that  
calls the rm command with:

setopt local_options no_nomatch

which will set the option for the duration of the function call but  
return to the default when it's done. This way you have the benefits  
of the option being set for the function without changing your default  
shell behavior.

--Mike H