From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 20 12: 1: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 797A037B401 for ; Fri, 20 Dec 2002 12:01:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D61B943EDA for ; Fri, 20 Dec 2002 12:01:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) id gBKK0rWV045423; Fri, 20 Dec 2002 14:00:53 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 14:00:53 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Kurt Bigler Cc: Fernando Gleiser , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: chown broken?? Message-ID: <20021220200053.GA89493@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20021220123728.S52840-100000@cactus.fi.uba.ar> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Dec 20), Kurt Bigler said: > I don't know zsh, but if it has a setting that prevents wildcard > expansion from including .. as a match for .* that strikes me as an > all-around good thing. zsh's rules are that no filename generation pattern ever matches the files `.' or `..'. There is also a GLOB_DOTS option that when set makes * match files starting with a dot as well. You can enable GLOB_DOTS for a single pattern by using a glob qualifier: *(D) -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message