Re: Sorting file names randomly

[DervishD <zsh@dervishd.net>]

    Hi Bart :)

 * Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com> dixit:
> On Jul 23,  9:42pm, DervishD wrote:
> }
> }     shuffle dir1/* dir2/* ...
> There's no reason to noglob and alias this.  The space required to
> expand the glob on the command line is no worse than what you're
> doing inside the function anyway, and there aren't argument-size
> limits on calls to shell functions, only on external commands.

    How about this?:

function shuffle () {

    emulate -L zsh 
    
    setopt nullglob globdots rcexpandparam
    
    RANDOM=`date +%s`
    [[ $# -eq 0 ]] && set '*'

    reply=()
    reply=($*)
    reply=($reply(e:'REPLY="${(l.5..0.)RANDOM} $REPLY"':))
    reply=(${(o)reply})
    reply=(${reply/#????? /})

    print -l $reply

    return 0
}

    It does the globbing outside, and shuffles correctly. Any way of
making the 'reply' assignments shorter? Should I go definitely for a
'for' loop and an associative array?

    Thanks a lot :)

    Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado

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