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I recently switched to zsh. In bash, when I use "ls --hide=*.pyc" in a file with no .pyc files, ls works as expected. In zsh, "ls --hide=*.pyc" works when the directory contains .pyc files, but fails with zsh: no matches found: --hide=*.pyc when no matches are found.

I would like to alias ls as "ls --hide=*.pyc"; is it possible to get zsh to stop complaining when no matches are found?

Thank you.

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You should really be escaping or quoting that asterisk. If you happened to have a directory entry like --hide=something.pyc (admittedly unlikely), then even bash would no do what you expect. Using ls --hide=\*.pyc or ls --hide='*.pyc' will work in all sane shells (since no wildcard actually is involved). – Chris Johnsen Feb 2 '10 at 1:33
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Try doing unsetopt nomatch.

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Quote the filespec:

ls --hide="*.pyc"

alias lh='ls --hide="*.pyc"'
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