Re: zsh globbing

2002-10-09 Thread Johann Spies
Thanks Paul and everybody else responding. I did read and reread the documentation but clearly not enough. Regards. Johann -- Johann Spies Telefoon: 021-808 4036 Informasietegnologie, Universiteit van Stellenbosch "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and

Re: zsh globbing

2002-10-08 Thread Thorsten Haude
Hi, * Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [02-10-08 23:06]: >Traditional Bourne shell behavior specifies that if a globbing >expression matches no files, then the globbing expression itself is >passed to the program as an argument. Didn't know that. I still like zsh's behaviour for this very reason:

Re: zsh globbing

2002-10-08 Thread Claudio Bley
On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 22:01, Johann Spies wrote: > In bash I can do this: > > js-21:57:41-~$dpkg -l zsh* > In zsh: > > zsh % dpkg -l zsh* > zsh: no matches found: zsh* > > Why? In zsh: setopt NO_NOMATCH -- Claudio Bley ASCII ribbon campaign (") Debian GNU/Li

Re: zsh globbing

2002-10-08 Thread Thorsten Haude
Hi, * Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [02-10-08 22:01]: >In bash I can do this: > >js-21:57:41-~$dpkg -l zsh* >Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold >| >Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed >|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: >

Re: zsh globbing

2002-10-08 Thread Paul Smith
%% Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: js> In bash I can do this: js> js-21:57:41-~$dpkg -l zsh* Traditional Bourne shell behavior specifies that if a globbing expression matches no files, then the globbing expression itself is passed to the program as an argument. So, assuming you hav

zsh globbing

2002-10-08 Thread Johann Spies
In bash I can do this: js-21:57:41-~$dpkg -l zsh* Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name VersionDescription +++-=