zsh bug: Incorrect (misleading) error message in zsh when using rm and drive letter is specified

zsh bug: Incorrect (misleading) error message in zsh when using rm and drive letter is specified

[Ronald Fischer]

I observed this:

-0-1- ~/exp  > rm e:/media/*
zsh: sure you want to delete all the files in /home/FISRONA/exp/e:/media
[yn]? n

We see that zsh is catching the case that I want to rm all files in the
specified directory, and warns me about it (note that it is a zsh error
message, not a error message from rm), which is fine and expected
behaviour (which can be controlled by the zsh option RM_STAR_SILENT).
However, the path printed by zsh is wrong: It interprets e:/... as
relative path, while it is an absolute path. It seems that zsh is not
translating windows pathes using a drive letter to /cygdrive/... pathes
in this case.

Version information:
zsh 5.1.1 (x86_64-unknown-cygwin)
 
Ronald

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Re: zsh bug: Incorrect (misleading) error message in zsh when using rm and drive letter is specified

[Ken Brown]

On 8/23/2016 3:57 AM, Ronald Fischer wrote:
> I observed this:
>
> -0-1- ~/exp  > rm e:/media/*
> zsh: sure you want to delete all the files in /home/FISRONA/exp/e:/media
> [yn]? n
>
> We see that zsh is catching the case that I want to rm all files in the
> specified directory, and warns me about it (note that it is a zsh error
> message, not a error message from rm), which is fine and expected
> behaviour (which can be controlled by the zsh option RM_STAR_SILENT).
> However, the path printed by zsh is wrong: It interprets e:/... as
> relative path, while it is an absolute path. It seems that zsh is not
> translating windows pathes using a drive letter to /cygdrive/... pathes
> in this case.

Some Cygwin applications do this translation, but not all.  You're 
better off just using Posix paths.

Ken


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