From: Andre Pang <andrep-ml@vjolnir.org>
To: zsh-users@sunsite.auc.dk
Subject: Prompt expansion, multi-job for
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 19:44:32 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20000106194432.A488@bozar.ihug.com.au> (raw)
Hiya guys,
I've got two completely separate questions about zsh.
1) Let's say I'm in the /usr/local/src path at the moment. Normally, if
you use the %~ prompt expansion, it will expand to /usr/local/src - no
surprises there. What I'd like to do is trim each path element to one
character unless it's the last path element, in which case it should be
displayed to a maximum of, say, 15 characters. eg, /usr/local/src should be
displayed as "/u/l/src", /usr/local/src/linux would be displayed as
"/u/l/s/linux", and /usr/local/src/linux-2.2.14+reiserfs+raid+ide might be
displayed as "/u/l/s/linux-2.2.14...". Is this possible with the current
prompt expansion codes, or will I have to write up a function to do it, if
it's possible to do at all?
2) Is there any way to emulate make's -jn option in the for command?
This would be *really* useful for SMP systems. Currently, doing something
like "for i in ***/***.wav; do l3enc $i; done" doesn't take advantage of
multiple CPUs (on a Linux system, at least); hacking the for command to
accept a 'make -j'-like parameter (eg: for -j2 i in *; do l3enc $i; done)
would allow us lucky ones who have SMP systems to do many things similar to
the above without going mad and writing silly Makefiles simply so we can
utilise make -j. If someone's written a function to do this already (Bart?
;) it'd be *very* cool.
Thanks,
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next reply other threads:[~2000-01-06 8:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-01-06 8:44 Andre Pang [this message]
2000-01-06 12:03 ` Oliver Kiddle
2000-01-06 14:19 ` Thomas Köhler
2000-01-06 15:21 ` Oliver Kiddle
[not found] ` <14452.47479.5744.410474@gargle.gargle.HOWL>
2000-01-06 17:47 ` Oliver Kiddle
2000-01-09 0:59 ` Bart Schaefer
2000-01-06 14:54 ` Andre Pang
2000-01-06 12:44 ` Andrej Borsenkow
2000-01-06 14:46 ` Andre Pang
2000-01-06 20:18 ` Peter Stephenson
2000-01-06 11:41 Sven Wischnowsky
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