On 2019-02-20 11:13, Mike Brown wrote: > On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 11:31:24PM -0700, Brian Inglis wrote: >> On 2019-02-19 13:42, Mike Brown wrote: >>> Zsh 5.3 under Win7-64 >>> I'm trying to do the following: >>> mv TSMUXER/*.ac3 TSMUXER/txmuxer.ac3 >>> The problem is the the * is not being expanded. I have no idea why not. >>> Any tips will be appreciated. >> >> The command line implies you have a .ac3 file already in TSMUXER and want to >> rename it to fixed name txmuxer.ac3. A lack of expansion implies there is no >> file matching that pattern. You can prefix simple commands with echo to test >> their effect. If a pattern is not expanded, use ls to check what exists in >> the >> source directory, and where it differs from your expectation. > > Ah, but the file I want to change the name of is indeed there. For this > particular run, the name is ".track_2.ac3". > > And yes, I did all kinds of testing to see what was being presented. > > For the time being I got around it by doing: > > mv TSMUXER/`ls -A TSMUXER` TSMUXER/tsmuxer.ac3 > > But, I'd rather use the wildcard. Plus, I'd like to know why it isn't > working and how to fix it.
Dotfiles .* are hidden by default under most shell expansions unless .* is explicitly specified or shell specific options are specified: for zsh specify the D glob qualifier *(D), for bash set shopt -s dotglob. -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada This email may be disturbing to some readers as it contains too much technical detail. Reader discretion is advised. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
