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shopt command not found in .bashrc after shell updation

I have updated my shell to ZSH . When i source ~/.bashrc . I am getting this error There was some error …

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What do double-asterisk wildcards mean?

I've tried the following command but I am having trouble interpreting it: ls ** but I'm not sure exactly what it …

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What expands to all files in current directory recursively?

I know **/*.ext expands to all files in all subdirectories matching *.ext, but what is a similar expansion that includes …

bash shell wildcard glob shopt

Why aliases in a non-interactive Bash shell do not work

I am trying to use aliases in a non-interactive bash shell. I have defined my aliases in ~/.bashrc and I …

bash alias non-interactive shopt

Match all files under all nested directories with shell globbing

Is there a way to use shell globbing to identify nested directories? so if I have dir/dir1/dir2/dir3/…

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Is there an easy way to set nullglob for one glob

In bash, if you do this: mkdir /tmp/empty array=(/tmp/empty/*) you find that array now has one element, "/…

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