making shell ignore braces

making shell ignore braces

[Eric Smith]

How do I get the shell not to interpret `()' chars, so
$ dial 00 49 (713) 999 999
must pass only the numbers to the dial script.
and not complain
zsh: no matches found: (713)

Thanks

-- 
- Eric Smith

Re: making shell ignore braces

[Frank Terbeck]

Eric Smith <es@fruitcom.com>:
> How do I get the shell not to interpret `()' chars, so
> $ dial 00 49 (713) 999 999
> must pass only the numbers to the dial script.
> and not complain
> zsh: no matches found: (713)

Hi Eric,
% noglob dial 00 49 (713) 999 999

If you do this all the time add an alias.

Regards, Frank

Re: making shell ignore braces

[Bart Schaefer]

On May 4, 12:42pm, Frank Terbeck wrote:
} Subject: Re: making shell ignore braces
}
} Eric Smith <es@fruitcom.com>:
} > How do I get the shell not to interpret `()' chars, so
} > $ dial 00 49 (713) 999 999
} > must pass only the numbers to the dial script.
} > and not complain
} > zsh: no matches found: (713)
} 
} % noglob dial 00 49 (713) 999 999

That's only part of the answer -- as I read it, Eric also wants the
parens to be discarded so that "dial" sees only digits.

The only reasonable way to accomplish that is to create a wrapper
script or function around "dial".  If "dial" is itself a script, it
might be more appropriate to change that script so that it discards
the parens itself, in which case Frank's answer would finish the job.

A wrapper function might look like

  # Use the "function" keyword to avoid conflicts with aliases
  function dial {
    # Strip non-numerics that commonly appear in phone numbers
    command dial "${@//[-+.()]/}"
  }
  alias dial='noglob dial'