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Re: Suppressing failed glob patterns

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From: Stephane Chazelas <Stephane_Chazelas@xxxxxxxx>
To: Thorsten Kampe <thorsten@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Suppressing failed glob patterns
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 21:36:17 +0000
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On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 09:55:37PM +0100, Thorsten Kampe wrote:
[...]
> 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?!
[...]

{rm file1.* file2.*} 2> /dev/null

-- 
Stéphane

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