Re: (#i) curiosity

What are your shell options? `(#i)zzz` gets me a "zsh: no matches found" if
such a file does not exist.  So I suspect you have `nullglob` set. In which
case, `(#i)zzz` expands to nothing because there's no match. Whereas `zzz`
by itself is _not a glob_, so the option has no effect; it is passed
unchanged to `ls`, which then notices that it doesn't exist.

On Thu, Apr 9, 2026 at 1:51 PM Ray Andrews <[email protected]> wrote:

> 4 /aWorking/Zsh/Source/Wk 4 % ls -AFrGgdt zzz
> ls: cannot access 'zzz': No such file or directory
>
> 4 /aWorking/Zsh/Source/Wk 4 % ls -AFrGgdt (#i)zzz
> drwxr-xr-x 16 20480 Apr  9 10:38 ./
>
> I'm expecting the (#i) to test for case, but it seems to send something to
> 'ls' even when there's no match.  Pretty trivial issue, but can that be
> fixed?  I mean so that ls would report No such ... ?  I think I recall a
> similar issue years ago and that there was a fix.
>


-- 
Mark J. Reed <[email protected]>