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Re: unintuitive bracketing with return value

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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Lawrence Velázquez <larryv@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx>, zsh-users@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: unintuitive bracketing with return value
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2022 13:14:08 -0700
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On Tue, Oct 18, 2022 at 1:12 PM Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> describing the bracketing as if it were this:

Except for my copy-paste error, of course.  Put a "[" inside the "{".

> { "${${1}##*[*?]*}" ] &&
> echo "no wildcards"; printenv "$1" } || echo wildcards present
>
> which would do exactly what he wants.

References:
- unintuitive bracketing with return value
  - From: Ray Andrews
- Re: unintuitive bracketing with return value
  - From: Eric Cook
- Re: unintuitive bracketing with return value
  - From: Ray Andrews
- Re: unintuitive bracketing with return value
  - From: Lawrence Velázquez
- Re: unintuitive bracketing with return value
  - From: Bart Schaefer

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