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From: Marc Chantreux <marc.chantreux@ulpmm.u-strasbg.fr>
To: Dominik Vogt <dominik.vogt@gmx.de>
Cc: zsh-users <zsh-users@sunsite.dk>
Subject: Re: searching upwards from cwd
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 11:13:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060619091328.GA1672@ulpmm.u-strasbg.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060619081505.151910@gmx.net>

Hi Dominik,

le 19/06/2006,
Dominik Vogt nous écrivait :
> 
> I'd like to be able to open addresses.txt in a single command without knowing
> about the working directory.  At the moment, the command depends on cwd:
> 
>   work/  =>  less addresses.txt
>   work/cvs/  =>  less ../addresses.txt
>   work/cvs/projectx/  =>  less ../../addresses.txt
>   work/cvs/projectx/src/  =>  less ../../../addresses.txt

is this enought ? 

from () {
        local base=${PWD%/$1/*}/$1
        shift
        print -l $base/${~^*}
}

less $( from works '**/adresses.txt' )

regards


  reply	other threads:[~2006-06-19  9:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-19  8:15 Dominik Vogt
2006-06-19  9:13 ` Marc Chantreux [this message]
2006-06-19 21:03   ` Dominik Vogt
2006-06-20 18:28     ` Dominik Vogt
2006-06-21  1:53       ` Bart Schaefer
2006-06-19 16:11 ` Bart Schaefer
2006-06-20  5:32   ` Sami Samhuri

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