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Martin Vegter
Martin Vegter

Reputation: 527

zsh extended globbing not working as expected

I have extendedglob enabled in zsh, but extended globbing does not seem to work:

$ print -l /etc/*.@(cfg|conf)
zsh: no matches found: /etc/*.@(cfg|conf)

$ print -l /etc/*.(conf)
zsh: number expected

how can I use regular expressions to list files in /etc which end either in .conf or in .cfg ?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 667

Answers (1)

user1934428
user1934428

Reputation: 22225

Wrong syntax. The @(...) construct is not related to EXTENDED GLOB, but to KSH_GLOB.

setopt extendedglob
print -l /etc/*.(cfg|conf)

As a side note, you can even then not use regular expressions to generate file lists. Regular expressions can only be used to match strings.

Upvotes: 2

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