Re: globbing problem

[Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@xxxxxxxxx>]

Manfred Lotz <manfred.lotz@xxxxxxxx> writes:

> function lsd() {
> 	if (( $# > 0 )); then
> 	  ls -d "$*"(/)
> 	else
> 	  ls -d *(/)
> 	fi
> }
>
>
> alias lsd='noglob lsd'

> $ lsd m*
> ls: cannot access m*(/): No such file or directory
>
> doesn't work.
>
> What is my mistake?

You need to force globbing.  Try this:

lsd() { local -a pat; pat=(${^*:-*}'(/N)'); ls -d ${~pat} }

(How to do it without a temporary variable?)

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