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Re: syntactic trivia

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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Zsh Users <zsh-users@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: syntactic trivia
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2021 10:05:21 -0800
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On Sat, Jan 2, 2021 at 9:50 AM Ray Andrews <rayandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> '(#i)' is treating '$1*(/N)' simply as a string and doesn't care where
> it came from.  That's quite clear.

As usual, that's not quite it.  (#i) et al. are part of the pattern,
just like * and ? and [abc] would be.  Conversely, (/N) and so on
refer to characteristics of any files (or their names) that are found
by scanning a directory with the pattern.

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