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Old 02-06-2010
Using wildcards in variables in zsh
Probably a stupid question... how do I use a wildcard in a variable in zsh? If I do:

var=*
echo $var

in bash, it will print all files/directories in the current directory. If I do it in zsh, it will only output an asterisk without the wildcard functionality. Thanks in advance!
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Old 02-06-2010
Hi.

I don't really use zsh, but it seems that globbing is turned off by default

Code:
% var=*
% echo $var
*

% set -o GLOB_SUBST
% echo $var
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