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Re: quonting and globbing

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From: Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Pier Paolo Grassi <pierpaolog@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Zsh-Users List <zsh-users@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: quonting and globbing
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2021 12:58:26 +0100
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On 3/2/21, Pier Paolo Grassi <pierpaolog@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello, given this test code:
>
> test(){
> setopt -L extended_glob
> local glob=${(q)1}'.[0-9]##'
> touch $1.1 $1.2
> echo -E - $~glob
> }
>
>> test tmp
> tmp.1 tmp.2
>
>> test {tmp}
> test:4: no matches found: \{tmp\}.[0-9]##
>
> test '<tmp>'
> <tmp>.1 <tmp>.2
>
> It seems the quoting of the {} makes the expansion fail (on zsh 5.1.1)
> is there any way I can quote the file name according to the glob expansion
> rules?
> thanks

I think you want (b), not (q).

-- 
Mikael Magnusson

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