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Re: *(@)/subdir expansion

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From: Aaron Davies <agdavi01@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: *(@)/subdir expansion
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 01:43:32 -0400
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Thomas Köhler wrote:

Andy Isaacson wrote:

I'm suprised to find that this expansion doesn't work for me:

% ls *(@)/dry
zsh: no matches found: *(@)/dry

Am I doing something wrong, is this expected behavior, or is it a bug?


You might want to try something like

for i in *(@) ; do ls $i/dry 2>/dev/null ; done

Really, the correct general solution to this is to fall back on thetool that zsh's extended glob attempts to make obsolete: GNU find.Despite its arcane and annoying syntax, it's still occasionally useful.In this case, you want to say


find *(@) -name dry -exec ls '{}' ';'
--
    __                      __
   /  )                    /  )
  /--/ __. .__  ______    /  / __. , __o  _  _
 /  (_(_/|_/ (_(_) / (_  (__/_(_/|_\/ <__</_/_)_

Follow-Ups:
- Re: *(@)/subdir expansion
  - From: Peter Stephenson

References:
- Re: *(@)/subdir expansion
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