Martin Pool's blog

zsh xterm mouse support

I just discovered a nice extension for zsh: mouse.zsh, which lets you click within the input line to move the cursor, copy or paste.

zsh glob to match broken symlinks

Peter Stephenson suggests that one can make a zsh glob (wildcard) match only broken symlinks by appending the (N-@) glob qualifier. (You must have setopt EXTENDED_GLOB or BARE_GLOB_QUAL for this to work.)

So for example this shows all the broken links in the manpage directory:

ls -lGg /usr/share/man/*/*(N-@)

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