I want to put path with globs in a variable in zsh and later use it in various commands, but can't figure out how to do that...
└➜ path_var="expansion_test/{loc,diff-loc}*" But if I try to use the variable, I get an error:
┌~/temp └➜ ls -l $path_var ls: cannot access expansion_test/{loc,diff-loc}*: No such file or directory ┌~/temp └➜ ls -l $~path_var zsh: no matches found: expansion_test/{loc,diff-loc}* This is no matches found error is really strange though:
┌~/temp └➜ ls -l expansion_test/{loc,diff-loc}* expansion_test/diff-loc: total 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 maxims eng 0 Jul 24 11:10 some13 -rw-r--r-- 1 maxims eng 0 Jul 24 11:10 some5 -rw-r--r-- 1 maxims eng 0 Jul 24 11:10 somefile -rw-r--r-- 1 maxims eng 0 Jul 24 11:10 something expansion_test/loc1: total 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 maxims eng 0 Jul 24 11:09 testfile1 -rw-r--r-- 1 maxims eng 0 Jul 24 11:09 testfile2 -rw-r--r-- 1 maxims eng 0 Jul 24 11:09 testfile3 -rw-r--r-- 1 maxims eng 0 Jul 24 11:09 testfile4 expansion_test/loc2: total 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 maxims eng 0 Jul 24 11:09 testfile10 -rw-r--r-- 1 maxims eng 0 Jul 24 11:09 testfile5 -rw-r--r-- 1 maxims eng 0 Jul 24 11:09 testfile6 -rw-r--r-- 1 maxims eng 0 Jul 24 11:09 testfile7 -rw-r--r-- 1 maxims eng 0 Jul 24 11:09 testfile8 What am I doing wrong?
