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Subject: | Re: Zsh and wildcards |
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From: | Eliot Moss <moss AT cs DOT umass DOT edu> |
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Date: | Wed, 20 Feb 2019 17:13:16 -0500 |
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On 2/20/2019 4:39 PM, Brian Inglis wrote: > On 2019-02-20 11:13, Mike Brown wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 11:31:24PM -0700, Brian Inglis wrote: >>> On 2019-02-19 13:42, Mike Brown wrote: >>>> Zsh 5.3 under Win7-64 >>>> I'm trying to do the following: >>>> mv TSMUXER/*.ac3 TSMUXER/txmuxer.ac3 >>>> The problem is the the * is not being expanded. I have no idea why not. >>>> Any tips will be appreciated. >>> >>> The command line implies you have a .ac3 file already in TSMUXER and want to >>> rename it to fixed name txmuxer.ac3. A lack of expansion implies there is no >>> file matching that pattern. You can prefix simple commands with echo to test >>> their effect. If a pattern is not expanded, use ls to check what exists in the >>> source directory, and where it differs from your expectation. >> >> Ah, but the file I want to change the name of is indeed there. For this >> particular run, the name is ".track_2.ac3". >> >> And yes, I did all kinds of testing to see what was being presented. >> >> For the time being I got around it by doing: >> >> mv TSMUXER/`ls -A TSMUXER` TSMUXER/tsmuxer.ac3 >> >> But, I'd rather use the wildcard. Plus, I'd like to know why it isn't >> working and how to fix it. > > Dotfiles .* are hidden by default under most shell expansions unless .* is > explicitly specified or shell specific options are specified: for zsh specify > the D glob qualifier *(D), for bash set shopt -s dotglob. ... or just do: mv TSMUXER/.*.ac3 TSMUXER/tsmuxer.ac3 (Note the . after the / !) Best - EM -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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