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Re: globbing on symlink target

On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 11:31 AM, Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 7:42 PM, Eitan Adler <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Is it possible to glob on a symlink target rather than the symlink
>> name.
>
> % ls -l *(@)
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 mikaelh users 3 Feb 28 16:50 broken -> foo
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 mikaelh users 3 Feb 28 20:27 broken2 -> bar
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 mikaelh users 3 Feb 28 20:27 hello -> foo
> % echo *(e*'local -A foo; zstat -LH foo $REPLY; [[ $foo[link] == foo ]]'*)
> broken hello

Should be easier than that -- using Eitan example of files with a
".rb" extension:

% ls *(@e^'[[ $REPLY:P = *.rb ]]'^)
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