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Re: Recursive globbing with (*/)#

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From: "Benjamin R. Haskell" <zsh@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: Omari Norman <omari@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Recursive globbing with (*/)#
Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 23:21:40 -0400 (EDT)
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On Mon, 16 May 2011, Omari Norman wrote:

% touch bar
% print -l (*/)#bar
zsh: bad pattern: (*/)#bar
% print -l **/bar
bar
zshexpn under "Recursive Globbing" says that the (*/)#bar form shouldbe identical. Starting zsh with -f (maybe I had strange options?) hadno effect. This is zsh 4.3.10 on Debian. Ideas? Thanks. --Omari


% setopt extended_glob

It's required to make x# (zero or more x) special.

The other three things it activates:

^x = anything but x
x~y = x but not y
x## = one or more x

--
Best,
Ben

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