Re: ls g^h

[Henno Brandsma <hennobrandsma@xxxxxxxxx>]

Op 22 jan 2009, om 20:12 heeft zzapper het volgende geschreven:

> Hi
> When I mistyped a
> ^g^h   type substitute
> with
> g^h
>
> I was surprised to find that it matched
> a directory "growth"
> eg
> ls g^h   would list the directory
>
> what functionality/fng is that? (hope it's not me being dumb)

In zshguide.pdf (around page 227) there is some discussion on  
EXTENDED_GLOB: it's part of that.
g^h is the pattern  "everything starting with g but not matching "h"  
exactly ". You happened to have exactly
one file starting in 'g',  I suppose (the final h seemingly matching  
is coincidental).
E.g. if I have 2 files "good" and "growth" then g^h matches them both,  
with EXTENDED_GLOB set.
In short: it becomes a globbing pattern by virtue of the presence of ^

Regards

Henno Brandsma

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