* searching upwards from cwd
@ 2006-06-19 8:15 Dominik Vogt
2006-06-19 9:13 ` Marc Chantreux
2006-06-19 16:11 ` Bart Schaefer
0 siblings, 2 replies; 7+ messages in thread
From: Dominik Vogt @ 2006-06-19 8:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: zsh-users; +Cc: dominik.vogt
The EQUALS option is very handy, and I'd like to have something similary,
but with a different search path. My working directory, is structured like this:
work/
adresses.txt
cvs/
projectx/
src/
foo/
projecty/
...
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
It would be very helpful to have an alternative syntax similar to
'**/<filename>' and '=<filename>' that looks upwards in the path. Maybe
**/adresses.txt => look in all subdirs
=addresses.txt => look in the PATH
.=addresses.txt => successively look in ., .., ../.., ../../.. and so on
**.=addresses.txt => works like .=, and if that fails works like **/
(or whatever the syntax would be).
I'd be happy to have it as a zsh function, but I think it could be done
much more efficient in the source code.
Ciao
Dominik ^_^ ^_^
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* Re: searching upwards from cwd
2006-06-19 8:15 searching upwards from cwd Dominik Vogt
@ 2006-06-19 9:13 ` Marc Chantreux
2006-06-19 21:03 ` Dominik Vogt
2006-06-19 16:11 ` Bart Schaefer
1 sibling, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: Marc Chantreux @ 2006-06-19 9:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Dominik Vogt; +Cc: zsh-users
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 $( from works '**/adresses.txt' )
regards
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* Re: searching upwards from cwd
2006-06-19 9:13 ` Marc Chantreux
@ 2006-06-19 21:03 ` Dominik Vogt
2006-06-20 18:28 ` Dominik Vogt
0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: Dominik Vogt @ 2006-06-19 21:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: zsh-users; +Cc: Dominik Vogt
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On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 11:13:28AM +0200, Marc Chantreux wrote:
> Hi Dominik,
>
> le 19/06/2006,
> Dominik Vogt nous écrivait :
> >
> > I'd like to be able to open addresses.txt in a single command without knowing
> > about the working directory. At the moment, the command depends on cwd:
> >
> > work/ => less addresses.txt
> > work/cvs/ => less ../addresses.txt
> > work/cvs/projectx/ => less ../../addresses.txt
> > work/cvs/projectx/src/ => less ../../../addresses.txt
>
> is this enought ?
>
> from () {
> local base=${PWD%/$1/*}/$1
> shift
> print -l $base/${~^*}
> }
>
> less $( from works '**/adresses.txt' )
Ah, that's not quite what I'm looking for. It's too much to type
- I could as well try an increasing numer of '../' components and
hit TAB every time.
Dominik ^_^ ^_^
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* Re: searching upwards from cwd
2006-06-19 21:03 ` Dominik Vogt
@ 2006-06-20 18:28 ` Dominik Vogt
2006-06-21 1:53 ` Bart Schaefer
0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: Dominik Vogt @ 2006-06-20 18:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: zsh-users; +Cc: Dominik Vogt
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On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 11:03:57PM +0200, Dominik Vogt wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 11:13:28AM +0200, Marc Chantreux wrote:
> > le 19/06/2006,
> > Dominik Vogt nous écrivait :
> > >
> > > I'd like to be able to open addresses.txt in a single command without knowing
> > > about the working directory. At the moment, the command depends on cwd:
> > >
> > > work/ => less addresses.txt
> > > work/cvs/ => less ../addresses.txt
> > > work/cvs/projectx/ => less ../../addresses.txt
> > > work/cvs/projectx/src/ => less ../../../addresses.txt
> >
> > is this enought ?
> >
> > from () {
> > local base=${PWD%/$1/*}/$1
> > shift
> > print -l $base/${~^*}
> > }
> >
> > less $( from works '**/adresses.txt' )
>
> Ah, that's not quite what I'm looking for. It's too much to type
> - I could as well try an increasing numer of '../' components and
> hit TAB every time.
Hm, this is close:
less (../)#adr*
But is there any way to prevent the globbing pattern is expanded
to multiple words? I just want the first/shortest match.
Ciao
Dominik ^_^ ^_^
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* Re: searching upwards from cwd
2006-06-19 8:15 searching upwards from cwd Dominik Vogt
2006-06-19 9:13 ` Marc Chantreux
@ 2006-06-19 16:11 ` Bart Schaefer
2006-06-20 5:32 ` Sami Samhuri
1 sibling, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: Bart Schaefer @ 2006-06-19 16:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: zsh-users
On Jun 19, 10:15am, Dominik Vogt wrote:
}
} It would be very helpful to have an alternative syntax similar to
} '**/<filename>' and '=<filename>' that looks upwards in the path.
setopt extendeglob
less (../)#addresses.txt
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* Re: searching upwards from cwd
2006-06-19 16:11 ` Bart Schaefer
@ 2006-06-20 5:32 ` Sami Samhuri
0 siblings, 0 replies; 7+ messages in thread
From: Sami Samhuri @ 2006-06-20 5:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: zsh-users
On 19-Jun-06, at 6:11 PM, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> On Jun 19, 10:15am, Dominik Vogt wrote:
> }
> } It would be very helpful to have an alternative syntax similar to
> } '**/<filename>' and '=<filename>' that looks upwards in the path.
>
> setopt extendeglob
> less (../)#addresses.txt
>
How incredibly useful. zsh continues to astound me every time I read
this list. Pretty much every time someone asks for something, the zsh
devs have already implemented it. Any zsh devs reading this, thank
you for making zsh the best shell around, bar none. Keep up the
excellent work!
Sami
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