perl substitution question

[Gary Kline]

On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 02:45:57PM -0800, Chuck Swiger wrote:
> On Jan 15, 2007, at 2:29 PM, Gary Kline wrote:
> >>OMG!  I managed to break a new shell war :)
> >>
> >>/me ducks and runs very far away
> >
> >	No! no, cometh backeth, Giorgos!  No war, just peace, love
> >	and flowers:-)
> 
> % cd /usr/ports/mail/imap-uw/ && make extract && cd work/imap-2004g
> % tail -3 Makefile
> # A monument to a hack of long ago and far away...
> love:
>         @echo not war?


	This was from *mumble* years ago, but if you do a make love 
	in most Makefiles, you'll get "make: don't know how to make love.
	Stop";  now is that old or what?

	Oh-well.



> 
> >  Actually, I do use zsh, just have no clue how to
> >	set noglob.  I was going to ask, but didn't want to show my
> >	ignorance.  [[ been using zsh for 16, 17 years... ]]
> [ ... ]
> >	Chuck, exactly what does noglob do? How to set/unset,  please?
> 
> noglob is a keyword (a "precommand modifier", specifically) that  
> disables wildcard filename globbing:
> 
>   % cd /tmp
>   % touch 'a*'
>   % touch 'ab'
>   % ls a*
>   a*              ab
>   % noglob ls a*
>   a*
> 
> This trivial case isn't too useful, but consider wanting to copy  
> all .jpg files from your home directory on another machine to the  
> local machine via scp or rsync:
> 
>   noglob scp kline at machine:*.jpg .
> 
> It's also amazingly handy in conjunction with the "find" command:
> 
>   noglob find /usr/obj -name *.a
> 
> ...so much so that I do:
> 
>   alias find='noglob find'
> 
> ...in my ZSH environment.
> 


	Yes, indeed, thank you.  After playing around for some minutes,
	your alias (or 'noglob find') finds much more easily.   Live and 
	learn....obviously.

	gary


> -- 
> -Chuck
> 
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