Re: Suppressing failed glob patterns

[Thorsten Kampe <thorsten@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

* Stephane Chazelas (Thu, 4 Dec 2008 21:36:17 +0000)> 
> On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 09:55:37PM +0100, Thorsten Kampe wrote:
> [...]
> > I like the default in zsh for failed glob patterns (which errors when no 
> > file matches the pattern). 
> > 
> > For example:
> > % rm file1.* file2.*                                                          
> > zsh: no matches found: file1.*
> > 
> > zsh never executes rm (which is fine). Additionially I would like to get 
> > rid of the error message in a script. Unfortunately redirecting stderr 
> > does not work (because rm is never executed). Is there a way to keep the 
> > default and to suppress the error?!
> [...]
> 
> {rm file1.* file2.*} 2> /dev/null

Thanks, also :)

Thorsten