On 10/22/13 14:02, Brent Briggs wrote:
Thanks for all the responses. The glob is now being generated properly. However, I am still having a problem getting my loop to run completely through.
pattern=git*
for entry in $path
do
print -l $entry/$~pattern
done
Output:
----------
/opt/local/bin/git
/opt/local/bin/git-credential-osxkeychain
/opt/local/bin/git-cvsserver
/opt/local/bin/git-receive-pack
/opt/local/bin/git-shell
/opt/local/bin/git-upload-archive
/opt/local/bin/git-upload-pack
/opt/local/bin/gitk
zsh: no matches found: /opt/local/sbin/git*
/opt/local/sbin/ being the second entry in my path.
Also tried:
print -l $path/$~pattern
try pattern=git*(N) print -l $path/$~pattern that will tell zsh to ignore globs that don't have any matches.
Output: ---------- zsh: no matches found: /Users/brent/bin/git* /Users/brent/bin/ being the last entry in my path. Looks like I need to use a conditional to test if any pattern matches exist, per directory, before trying to print them. I wasn't able to find a solution in the manual that facilitates testing for the existence of pattern matches. I would like to solve this problem using only globbing if possible. I am probably missing something simple. On Oct 22, 2013, at 1:05 PM, Philippe Troin<phil@xxxxxxxx> wrote:On Tue, 2013-10-22 at 12:45 -0400, Brent Briggs wrote:I am simply trying to list all matches for a specified pattern in an array of directory paths, the $path array for example. Here is my attempt. Where am I going wrong?Globs are not ran after variable substitution by default. To run filename generation (aka globs) after variable substitution, use $~var. Your example:pattern=git* for entry in $path do # Print all files in the path that match the pattern. print $entry/$pattern doneCan be rewritten as: pattern=git* for entry in $path do # Print all files in the path that match the pattern. print $entry/$~pattern done It can be simplified further as: pattern=git* print $path/$~pattern Phil.