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Re: Glob Qualifier Yn enables short-circuit mode behaves oddly




On 11/03/2022 13:50, Mikael Magnusson wrote:
On 3/11/22, zzapper <zsh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi

  > print *(.omY3)

notebash.txt note132.txt note020.txt

I don't know why it's selected those 3 files but it always does


Yn

     enables short-circuit mode: the pattern will expand to at most n
     filenames. If more than n matches exist, only the first n matches in
     directory traversal order will be considered.

     Implies oN when no oc qualifier is used.
You've included the answer in your mail, Y3 will stop looking at files
after finding 3 in directory traversal order, those 3 files are then
sorted according to their modification timestamp. If you want to
consider all files in the directory, use [3] instead of Y3.


MM,

So what then is traversal order?

zzapper





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