On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 02:45:57PM -0800, Chuck Swiger wrote:
> On Jan 15, 2007, at 2:29 PM, Gary Kline wrote:
> >>OMG! I managed to break a new shell war :)
> >>
> >>/me ducks and runs very far away
> >
> > No! no, cometh backeth, Giorgos! No war, just peace, love
> > and flowers:-)
>
> % cd /usr/ports/mail/imap-uw/ && make extract && cd work/imap-2004g
> % tail -3 Makefile
> # A monument to a hack of long ago and far away...
> love:
> @echo not war?
This was from *mumble* years ago, but if you do a make love
in most Makefiles, you'll get "make: don't know how to make love.
Stop"; now is that old or what?
Oh-well.
>
> > Actually, I do use zsh, just have no clue how to
> > set noglob. I was going to ask, but didn't want to show my
> > ignorance. [[ been using zsh for 16, 17 years... ]]
> [ ... ]
> > Chuck, exactly what does noglob do? How to set/unset, please?
>
> noglob is a keyword (a "precommand modifier", specifically) that
> disables wildcard filename globbing:
>
> % cd /tmp
> % touch 'a*'
> % touch 'ab'
> % ls a*
> a* ab
> % noglob ls a*
> a*
>
> This trivial case isn't too useful, but consider wanting to copy
> all .jpg files from your home directory on another machine to the
> local machine via scp or rsync:
>
> noglob scp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:*.jpg .
>
> It's also amazingly handy in conjunction with the "find" command:
>
> noglob find /usr/obj -name *.a
>
> ...so much so that I do:
>
> alias find='noglob find'
>
> ...in my ZSH environment.
>
Yes, indeed, thank you. After playing around for some minutes,
your alias (or 'noglob find') finds much more easily. Live and
learn....obviously.
gary
> --
> -Chuck
>
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