Globbing/parameter expansion question

Globbing/parameter expansion question

[Tom Martin]

Hello,

I've found a mail indexing and searching program which I really like. It
just has one disadvantage: the command line interface is stupid.

For example:

nmzmail -i -m inbox

will index the inbox maildir, but then to index multiple mailboxes, it
accepts:

nmzmail -i -m inbox -m sent-mail -m list-zsh-users

So, it's not possible to simply glob for the mailboxes you want because
it needs to have another explicit -m before the next mailbox.

Although a for loop is the obvious solution, I want to avoid using one
because I want to get a full summary of all the mail being indexed, but
also (mainly) because I want to know more about how to do something like
this in zsh.

Sorry for the monologue, but are there any takers?

Thanks,
Tom

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Re: Globbing/parameter expansion question

[DervishD]

    Hi Tom :)

 * Tom Martin <slarti@gentoo.org> dixit:
> Sorry for the monologue, but are there any takers?

    Look for the messages of the last week in the list, a few
solutions for this problem were given ;) I don't remember them
clearly, so you better look the list archives.

    Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado

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Re: Globbing/parameter expansion question

[Tom Martin]

On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 12:51:12PM +0200, DervishD <zsh@dervishd.net> wrote:
>     Hi Tom :)
> 
>  * Tom Martin <slarti@gentoo.org> dixit:
> > Sorry for the monologue, but are there any takers?
> 
>     Look for the messages of the last week in the list, a few
> solutions for this problem were given ;) I don't remember them
> clearly, so you better look the list archives.
> 
>     Ra?l N??ez de Arenas Coronado

Excellent! http://www.zsh.org/mla/users/2005/msg00379.html is what I was
looking for. Thanks :)

Tom

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