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Re: (N) defaults to whole directory listing

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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Zsh Users <zsh-users@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: (N) defaults to whole directory listing
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2021 10:47:23 -0800
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On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 9:01 AM Ray Andrews <rayandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> That's about what I expected to hear.  zsh can't be expected to feed
> 'ls' with something that duplicates a non-existent file, it can only
> remove the non-existent file thus leaving no argument

Your problem is that (N) means NULL_GLOB, but you want it to mean CSH_NULL_GLOB.

Have you considered using "setopt CSH_NULL_GLOB" and then not using (N) ...?

References:
- (N) defaults to whole directory listing
  - From: Ray Andrews
- Re: (N) defaults to whole directory listing
  - From: Roman Perepelitsa
- Re: (N) defaults to whole directory listing
  - From: Ray Andrews

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