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Re: globbing with interposition



On Apr 19,  4:59pm, Peter Stephenson wrote:
} Subject: Re: globbing with interposition
}
} The effect of "not sorting at all" is likely to be that the files are
} read in inode order, except it's not documented how they are likely to
} be inserted into the final list.  It does seem that they're reversed on
} Linux:

You're missing the point, which is that in reply=(1 2 $REPLY 3 4) there
are no files named 1 2 3 4, yet zsh reverses the array anyway.  It can't
be doing so based on inode order becase there are no inodes.

Also od and Od don't matter -- the array is reversed in either case -- so
it's not an effect of the 'o' flag.



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