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From: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>
To: Austin Clements <amdragon@MIT.EDU>, Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org>
Cc: notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] lib: make folder: prefix literal
Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2014 15:12:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2vbwtwvnh.fsf@guru.guru-group.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140204200249.GO4375@mit.edu>

On Tue, Feb 04 2014, Austin Clements <amdragon@MIT.EDU> wrote:

> Quoth Jani Nikula on Feb 01 at  4:54 pm:
>
>> I kind of like the "/**" suffix for recursive, but there's two small
>> wrinkles: 1) it needs quoting on the command line (unlike my original
>> suggestion of just "/" suffix), and 2) what should the top level
>> recursive search be? path:"**" or path:"/**" or path:"./**"? I guess the
>> first one is most obvious?
>
> The shell quoting is annoying, but depending on the shell, it should
> at least give an error (zsh) or Just Work (apparently bash and sh pass
> the unexpanded glob through if it doesn't match anything?).


In zsh:

$ echo whatever:/**
whatever:/**

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.

Tomi

  reply	other threads:[~2014-02-05 13:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-09 22:18 [PATCH 0/5] lib: make folder: prefix literal Jani Nikula
2014-01-09 22:18 ` [PATCH 1/5] " Jani Nikula
2014-01-24 21:18   ` Austin Clements
2014-01-09 22:18 ` [PATCH 2/5] test: fix insert folder: searches Jani Nikula
2014-01-24 21:20   ` Austin Clements
2014-01-25 19:32     ` Rob Browning
2014-01-09 22:18 ` [PATCH 3/5] test: fix test for literal folder: search Jani Nikula
2014-01-09 22:18 ` [PATCH 4/5] test: add test database in format version 1 Jani Nikula
2014-01-09 22:18 ` [PATCH 5/5] test: add database upgrade test from " Jani Nikula
2014-01-24 21:17 ` [PATCH 0/5] lib: make folder: prefix literal Austin Clements
2014-01-24 23:21   ` David Bremner
2014-01-25  9:33   ` Jani Nikula
2014-01-25 10:47     ` Tomi Ollila
2014-01-25 11:06       ` Jani Nikula
2014-01-25 11:52         ` Tomi Ollila
2014-01-25 15:38     ` Jani Nikula
2014-01-25 16:58       ` David Bremner
2014-01-25 18:22         ` Jani Nikula
     [not found]       ` <874n4rvcvo.fsf@yoom.home.cworth.org>
2014-01-29 19:05         ` Jani Nikula
     [not found]           ` <87k3dir3ci.fsf@yoom.home.cworth.org>
2014-01-29 20:46             ` Austin Clements
     [not found]               ` <87bnyuqw60.fsf@yoom.home.cworth.org>
2014-01-30  6:34                 ` Jani Nikula
2014-01-30 21:15                   ` Mark Walters
2014-01-30 22:02       ` Austin Clements
2014-01-31 19:19         ` Rob Browning
2014-02-04 20:14           ` Austin Clements
2014-02-04 20:17             ` Rob Browning
2014-01-31 19:24         ` Rob Browning
2014-02-01 14:54         ` Jani Nikula
2014-02-04 20:02           ` Austin Clements
2014-02-05 13:12             ` Tomi Ollila [this message]
2014-02-05 21:12               ` Tomi Ollila

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