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How to overcome the (a/b/c…)(N) pattern limitation?

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From: Sebastian Gniazdowski <sgniazdowski@xxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: How to overcome the (a/b/c…)(N) pattern limitation?
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2020 14:49:01 +0200
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Hi
I was trying to do: ls (/tmp/somedir/gh|./gh)(N) to obtain the error
message:

zsh: bad pattern: (/tmp/somedir/gh|./gh)(N)

I think that logically these are useful, good patterns and I wonder if
there's is a way to easily obtain a working equivalent of them?

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