* Zsh and wildcards @ 2019-02-19 22:00 Mike Brown 2019-02-20 8:08 ` Brian Inglis 0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread From: Mike Brown @ 2019-02-19 22:00 UTC (permalink / raw) To: cygwin mail list 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. MB -- e-mail: vidiot@vidiot.com | vidiot@vidiot.net /~\ The ASCII 6082066843@email.uscc.net (140 char limit) \ / Ribbon Campaign Visit - URL: http://vidiot.com/ X Against http://vidiot.net/ / \ HTML Email "What do you say Beckett. Wanna have a baby?" - Castle to Det. Beckett "How long have I been gone?" Alexis after seeing Castle and Beckett w/ baby - Castle - 11/25/13 -- 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 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* Re: Zsh and wildcards 2019-02-19 22:00 Zsh and wildcards Mike Brown @ 2019-02-20 8:08 ` Brian Inglis [not found] ` <20190220181351.GP2904@mrvideo.vidiot.com> 0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread From: Brian Inglis @ 2019-02-20 8:08 UTC (permalink / raw) To: cygwin 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. -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada This email may be disturbing to some readers as it contains too much technical detail. Reader discretion is advised. -- 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 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
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* Re: Zsh and wildcards [not found] ` <20190220181351.GP2904@mrvideo.vidiot.com> @ 2019-02-20 21:41 ` Brian Inglis 2019-02-20 22:25 ` Eliot Moss 0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread From: Brian Inglis @ 2019-02-20 21:41 UTC (permalink / raw) To: cygwin 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. -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada This email may be disturbing to some readers as it contains too much technical detail. Reader discretion is advised. -- 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 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* Re: Zsh and wildcards 2019-02-20 21:41 ` Brian Inglis @ 2019-02-20 22:25 ` Eliot Moss 0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread From: Eliot Moss @ 2019-02-20 22:25 UTC (permalink / raw) To: cygwin 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 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
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