Adding Text to Each Match

Adding Text to Each Match

[Chris Johnson]

Is there a non-loop way to replicate text for each filename matching a
pattern?  For example, I'm trying to generate e-mail messages with
attachments that match a pattern to send with mutt.  Each attachment
needs to be specified with the -a option.

   echo body | mutt -a file1_foo -a file2_foo \
                    -s "Here's your foo" username

Is there something in zsh that would let me say

   echo body | mutt [prefix all matches to *foo with -a] \
                    -s "Here's your foo" username

that would expand to the command listed above?

I think there's been some talk of this, but I don't know what to search
for in the archives.  Thanks for your help!

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Chris Johnson
cjohnson@cs.utk.edu
http://www.cs.utk.edu/~cjohnson

Re: Adding Text to Each Match

[Bart Schaefer]

On Dec 12, 10:39am, Chris Johnson wrote:
}
} Is there a non-loop way to replicate text for each filename matching a
} pattern?  [...]
} I think there's been some talk of this, but I don't know what to search
} for in the archives.

Try searching for "mutt".  The thread is "globbing with interposition"
from back in April, and the short-and-sweet answer is that mutt doesn't
care whether there's a space between the -a and the file name, so you
can run them together as -afile1 -afile2 etc., which means you can use
brace expansion.  See zsh-users/8707.

Re: Adding Text to Each Match

[Peter Stephenson]

Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com> wrote:
> Try searching for "mutt".  The thread is "globbing with interposition"
> from back in April, and the short-and-sweet answer is that mutt doesn't
> care whether there's a space between the -a and the file name, so you
> can run them together as -afile1 -afile2 etc., which means you can use
> brace expansion.  See zsh-users/8707.

Do we still want to have a glob qualifer to specify no reordering?

Index: Doc/Zsh/expn.yo
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/zsh/zsh/Doc/Zsh/expn.yo,v
retrieving revision 1.58
diff -u -r1.58 expn.yo
--- Doc/Zsh/expn.yo	4 Nov 2005 16:20:34 -0000	1.58
+++ Doc/Zsh/expn.yo	12 Dec 2005 18:54:30 -0000
@@ -1958,11 +1958,13 @@
 inode change respectively; if tt(d), files in subdirectories appear before
 those in the current directory at each level of the search DASH()- this is best
 combined with other criteria, for example `tt(odon)' to sort on names for
-files within the same directory.  Note that tt(a), tt(m), and tt(c) compare
+files within the same directory; if tt(N), no sorting is performed.
+Note that tt(a), tt(m), and tt(c) compare
 the age against the current time, hence the first name in the list is the
 youngest file. Also note that the modifiers tt(^) and tt(-) are used,
 so `tt(*(^-oL))' gives a list of all files sorted by file size in descending
-order, following any symbolic links.
+order, following any symbolic links.  Unless tt(oN) is used, multiple order
+specifiers may occur to resolve ties.
 )
 item(tt(O)var(c))(
 like `tt(o)', but sorts in descending order; i.e. `tt(*(^oc))' is the
Index: Src/glob.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/zsh/zsh/Src/glob.c,v
retrieving revision 1.48
diff -u -r1.48 glob.c
--- Src/glob.c	13 Oct 2005 16:30:14 -0000	1.48
+++ Src/glob.c	12 Dec 2005 18:54:31 -0000
@@ -56,11 +56,14 @@
 
 #define GS_NAME   1
 #define GS_DEPTH  2
-#define GS_SIZE   4
-#define GS_ATIME  8
-#define GS_MTIME 16
-#define GS_CTIME 32
-#define GS_LINKS 64
+
+#define GS_SHIFT_BASE	4
+
+#define GS_SIZE  (GS_SHIFT_BASE)
+#define GS_ATIME (GS_SHIFT_BASE << 1)
+#define GS_MTIME (GS_SHIFT_BASE << 2)
+#define GS_CTIME (GS_SHIFT_BASE << 3)
+#define GS_LINKS (GS_SHIFT_BASE << 4)
 
 #define GS_SHIFT  5
 #define GS__SIZE  (GS_SIZE << GS_SHIFT)
@@ -69,7 +72,8 @@
 #define GS__CTIME (GS_CTIME << GS_SHIFT)
 #define GS__LINKS (GS_LINKS << GS_SHIFT)
 
-#define GS_DESC  4096
+#define GS_DESC  (GS_SHIFT_BASE << (2*GS_SHIFT))
+#define GS_NONE  (GS_SHIFT_BASE << (2*GS_SHIFT+1))
 
 #define GS_NORMAL (GS_SIZE | GS_ATIME | GS_MTIME | GS_CTIME | GS_LINKS)
 #define GS_LINKED (GS_NORMAL << GS_SHIFT)
@@ -1414,6 +1418,7 @@
 		    case 'm': t = GS_MTIME; break;
 		    case 'c': t = GS_CTIME; break;
 		    case 'd': t = GS_DEPTH; break;
+		    case 'N': t = GS_NONE; break;
 		    default:
 			zerr("unknown sort specifier", NULL, 0);
 			restore_globstate(saved);
@@ -1622,10 +1627,13 @@
 	    matchct = 1;
 	}
     }
-    /* Sort arguments in to lexical (and possibly numeric) order. *
-     * This is reversed to facilitate insertion into the list.    */
-    qsort((void *) & matchbuf[0], matchct, sizeof(struct gmatch),
-	       (int (*) _((const void *, const void *)))gmatchcmp);
+
+    if (!(gf_sortlist[0] & GS_NONE)) {
+	/* Sort arguments in to lexical (and possibly numeric) order. *
+	 * This is reversed to facilitate insertion into the list.    */
+	qsort((void *) & matchbuf[0], matchct, sizeof(struct gmatch),
+	      (int (*) _((const void *, const void *)))gmatchcmp);
+    }
 
     if (first < 0) {
 	first += matchct;
@@ -1637,10 +1645,21 @@
     else if (end > matchct)
 	end = matchct;
     if ((end -= first) > 0) {
-	matchptr = matchbuf + matchct - first - end;
-	while (end-- > 0) {		/* insert matches in the arg list */
-	    insertlinknode(list, node, matchptr->name);
-	    matchptr++;
+	if (gf_sortlist[0] & GS_NONE) {
+	    /* Match list was never reversed, so insert back to front. */
+	    matchptr = matchbuf + matchct - first - 1;
+	    while (end-- > 0) {
+		/* insert matches in the arg list */
+		insertlinknode(list, node, matchptr->name);
+		matchptr--;
+	    }
+	} else {
+	    matchptr = matchbuf + matchct - first - end;
+	    while (end-- > 0) {
+		/* insert matches in the arg list */
+		insertlinknode(list, node, matchptr->name);
+		matchptr++;
+	    }
 	}
     }
     free(matchbuf);



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Re: Adding Text to Each Match

[Chris Johnson]

Bart Schaefer sent me the following 0.5K:

> On Dec 12, 10:39am, Chris Johnson wrote:
> 
> } Is there a non-loop way to replicate text for each filename matching a
> } pattern?  [...]
> } I think there's been some talk of this, but I don't know what to search
> } for in the archives.
> 
> Try searching for "mutt".  The thread is "globbing with interposition"
> from back in April, and the short-and-sweet answer is that mutt doesn't
> care whether there's a space between the -a and the file name, so you
> can run them together as -afile1 -afile2 etc., which means you can use
> brace expansion.  See zsh-users/8707.

Got it.  Thanks!

-- 
Chris Johnson
cjohnson@cs.utk.edu
http://www.cs.utk.edu/~cjohnson

Re: Adding Text to Each Match

[Bart Schaefer]

On Dec 12,  6:56pm, Peter Stephenson wrote:
}
} Do we still want to have a glob qualifer to specify no reordering?

I think it's useful, or at least not useless.