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From: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: trivial question
Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2022 21:20:54 -0800
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On 2022-12-04 18:52, Lawrence Velázquez wrote:

In this context, "var[2]" is recognized as a valid glob, and zsh
attempts to generate filenames with it.  If a file or directory
matches, its name is inserted as usual.

I see. A file glob would be the last thing I'd be expecting, I'mexpecting it to be a nothing but a string. Anyway that's a clearexplanation.

% zsh +o NOMATCH foo.zsh
	<var[2]><ain't><nothing>

That works. First experiments trying '(un)setopt NOMATCH' aren'tworking but now that I know what to chew on I'll bag it.

This is all explained in the manual.
https://zsh.sourceforge.io/Doc/Release/Expansion.html#Filename-Generation

Thanks, as is so often the case, it's not having a clue where to lookthat's that hard part. I'd not have dreamed this was a filenamegeneration issue.

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