Yes, that verbiage is wrong. I suspect the final sentence was intended to
be this:
In fish you would type **/*.fish to match files ending in ".fish" in
subdirs but not the PWD. If you want to include files in the PWD as well as
subdirs just type **.fish.
On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 3:44 PM, Mark Volkmann <r.mark.volkm...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> In the documentation on wildcards I see this:
>
> - ** matches any string of characters. This includes matching an empty
> string. The matched string may include the / character; that is, it
> recurses into subdirectories. Note that augmenting this wildcard with other
> strings will not match files in the current working directory ($PWD)
> if you separate the strings with a slash ("/"). This is unlike other shells
> such as zsh. For example, **\/*.fish in zsh will match .fish files in
> the PWD but in fish will only match such files in a subdirectory. In fish
> you should type ***.fish to match files in the PWD as well as
> subdirectories.
>
> But when I am in a directory that contains .fish files and has
> subdirectories that also contain .fish files, I get the same result from
> "ls **.fish" and "ls ***.fish". Both display matches in the PWD. Is the
> documentation wrong?
>
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