From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48650431FBF for ; Wed, 5 Feb 2014 13:12:39 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at olra.theworths.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: 1.207 X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.207 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[MISSING_HEADERS=1.207] autolearn=disabled Received: from olra.theworths.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (olra.theworths.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id iZBf+NREmJ2e for ; Wed, 5 Feb 2014 13:12:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from guru.guru-group.fi (guru.guru-group.fi [46.183.73.34]) by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8440C431FAE for ; Wed, 5 Feb 2014 13:12:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from guru.guru-group.fi (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by guru.guru-group.fi (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95738100033 for ; Wed, 5 Feb 2014 23:12:22 +0200 (EET) From: Tomi Ollila Cc: notmuch@notmuchmail.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] lib: make folder: prefix literal In-Reply-To: References: <87y525m649.fsf@awakening.csail.mit.edu> <87r47wfltb.fsf@nikula.org> <87iot8f4vg.fsf@nikula.org> <20140130220234.GI4375@mit.edu> <87fvo2yjc4.fsf@nikula.org> <20140204200249.GO4375@mit.edu> User-Agent: Notmuch/0.17+55~g4397960 (http://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/24.3.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) X-Face: HhBM'cA~ MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-BeenThere: notmuch@notmuchmail.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: "Use and development of the notmuch mail system." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2014 21:12:39 -0000 On Wed, Feb 05 2014, Tomi Ollila wrote: > On Tue, Feb 04 2014, Austin Clements wrote: > > > In zsh: > > $ echo whatever:/** > whatever:/** Except (retested after seeing related IRC msg from Austin): $ unsetopt no_nomatch $ echo whatever:/** zsh: no matches found: whatever:/** We can maybe document this (and bash nullglob) for users to decide how they want their shells to behave... Tomi > Quick check with: > ksh-20100621-12.el6.x86_64, > dash-0.5.5.1-3.1.el6.x86_64 > busybox-1.15.1-20.el6.x86_64 (busybox sh & busybox ash) > and > http://sourceforge.net/projects/heirloom/files/heirloom-sh/050706/heirloom-sh-050706.tar.bz2/download > > all do the same (non-)expansion. > > > I vaguely remember some shells did puke some error when expansion yielded > no results... maybe some shell option does it. Definitely not mainstream > feature. ... or maybe it is after all ;/ > > Tomi