Re: Errors with my youtube-dl function in ~/.zshrc but I am unsure why

[John <da_audiophile@xxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message -----
> From: Eric Cook <llua@xxxxxxx>
> To: zsh-users@xxxxxxx
> Cc: da_audiophile@xxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Sunday, August 16, 2015 2:44 AM
> Subject: Re: Errors with my youtube-dl function in ~/.zshrc but I am unsure why
> 
> On 08/16/2015 02:32 AM, John wrote:
>>  Why does zsh complain about no matches when I invoke my yt function and how 
> can I correct the code?  Thanks!
>> 
>>  From ~/.zshrc:
>>   yt() { [[ -z "$1" ]] || noglob youtube-dl -q "$1" 
> &; }
>> 
>>  Output of command:
>>   % yt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OC1JiAUr3ZU                           
>                           :(
>>   zsh: no matches found: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OC1JiAUr3ZU
>> 
>>  Please note that I am not subscribed to the ML so please cc me in the 
> reply.
>> 
> You have to call the function with noglob to prevent zsh from thinking ? is a 
> pattern character.
> 
> so:
> % noglob yt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OC1JiAUr3ZU
> 

Thank you for the reply.  In the past (month ago), this function worked as-is calling the command prefixed by noglob as you recommended.  Is there any way I can roll it into the function?