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mcsim
mcsim

Reputation: 1798

No matches found for correct globbing

I want to list all .c files, except .mod.c files. I use zsh 5.2 (x86_64-debian-linux-gnu) with oh-my-zsh. The pattern I use is following:

$ ls *.c      
ipmi_bt_sm.c    ipmi_devintf.mod.c     ipmi_msghandler.c  
ipmi_powernv.c  ipmi_poweroff.mod.c    ipmi_si.mod.c
ipmi_ssif.c     ipmi_watchdog.mod.c    ipmi_devintf.c
ipmi_kcs_sm.c   ipmi_msghandler.mod.c  ipmi_poweroff.c
ipmi_si_intf.c  ipmi_smic_sm.c         ipmi_watchdog.c
$ ls *.c~mod.c
zsh: no matches found: *.c~mod.c
$ ls .*.c~aoesuthaoestuhsththsh
zsh: no matches found: .*.c~aoesuthaoestuhsththsh

I'm sure that '*.c~mod.c' is correct, because this is exactly what is proposed at following web-site.

http://www.strcat.de/zsh/ :

ls *.c~lex.c matches all .c files except lex.c

Do I have to enable something specific for extended globbing? Or disable something which hinders this function?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1208

Answers (1)

Chris Kitching
Chris Kitching

Reputation: 2655

Firstly, you need to make sure extended globbing is turned on: setopt extended_glob

(You'll probably want that in .zshrc)

As for your pattern, what you want is *.c~*.mod.c.

The way it works is pattern1~pattern2, and it yields all the matches of pattern1, minus all the matches of pattern2. What you had was "Everything that ends in .c, minus mod.c". What you want is really "eveything that ends in .c, minus everything that ends in .mod.c", which is what I give above.

Upvotes: 2

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