Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 14:00:53 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Kurt Bigler <kkb@breathhost.net> Cc: Fernando Gleiser <fgleiser@cactus.fi.uba.ar>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: chown broken?? Message-ID: <20021220200053.GA89493@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <BA28B451.56C2%kkb@breathhost.net> References: <20021220123728.S52840-100000@cactus.fi.uba.ar> <BA28B451.56C2%kkb@breathhost.net>
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In the last episode (Dec 20), Kurt Bigler said: > I don't know zsh, but if it has a setting that prevents wildcard > expansion from including .. as a match for .* that strikes me as an > all-around good thing. zsh's rules are that no filename generation pattern ever matches the files `.' or `..'. There is also a GLOB_DOTS option that when set makes * match files starting with a dot as well. You can enable GLOB_DOTS for a single pattern by using a glob qualifier: *(D) -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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