On Jan 15, 2007, at 2:29 PM, Gary Kline wrote:
OMG! I managed to break a new shell war :)
/me ducks and runs very far away
No! no, cometh backeth, Giorgos! No war, just peace, love
and flowers:-)
% cd /usr/ports/mail/imap-uw/ && make extract && cd work/imap-2004g
% tail -3 Makefile
# A monument to a hack of long ago and far away...
love:
@echo not war?
Actually, I do use zsh, just have no clue how to
set noglob. I was going to ask, but didn't want to show my
ignorance. [[ been using zsh for 16, 17 years... ]]
[ ... ]
Chuck, exactly what does noglob do? How to set/unset, please?
noglob is a keyword (a "precommand modifier", specifically) that
disables wildcard filename globbing:
% cd /tmp
% touch 'a*'
% touch 'ab'
% ls a*
a* ab
% noglob ls a*
a*
This trivial case isn't too useful, but consider wanting to copy
all .jpg files from your home directory on another machine to the
local machine via scp or rsync:
noglob scp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:*.jpg .
It's also amazingly handy in conjunction with the "find" command:
noglob find /usr/obj -name *.a
...so much so that I do:
alias find='noglob find'
...in my ZSH environment.
--
-Chuck
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