Re: Glob Qualifier Yn enables short-circuit mode behaves oddly

[zzapper <zsh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/03/2022 13:50, Mikael Magnusson wrote:
> On 3/11/22, zzapper <zsh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> >   > print *(.omY3)
> >
> > notebash.txt note132.txt note020.txt
> >
> > I don't know why it's selected those 3 files but it always does
> >
> >
> > Yn
> >
> >      enables short-circuit mode: the pattern will expand to at most n
> >      filenames. If more than n matches exist, only the first n matches in
> >      directory traversal order will be considered.
> >
> >      Implies oN when no oc qualifier is used.
> You've included the answer in your mail, Y3 will stop looking at files
> after finding 3 in directory traversal order, those 3 files are then
> sorted according to their modification timestamp. If you want to
> consider all files in the directory, use [3] instead of Y3.

MM,

So what then is traversal order?

zzapper