Re: Filename generation: instruct zsh not to follow symbolic links?
Bart Schaefer <[email protected]> Thu, 16 Jul 2026 12:10:00 -0700
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% nosym() { [[ $REPLY == $REPLY:A ]] || reply=() }
% echo /tmp/foo/f/*
/tmp/foo/f/bang
% echo /tmp/foo/f/*(+nosym)
zsh: no matches found: /tmp/foo/f/*(+nosym)
% ls -ld /tmp/foo/*
drwxrwxr-x 3 schaefer wheel 96 Jul 16 11:55 /tmp/foo/bar
lrwxrwxr-x 1 schaefer wheel 12 Jul 16 11:55 /tmp/foo/f -> /tmp/foo/bar
% ls -ld /tmp/foo/*(+nosym)
drwxrwxr-x 3 schaefer wheel 96 Jul 16 11:55 /tmp/foo/bar
(This specific example can be a little surprising on MacOS because
/tmp is itself a symlink to /private/tmp)