turn off globbing sometimes

turn off globbing sometimes

[fREW]

Is there a way that I can turn off globing for a certain command so
that I won't have to quote stars and whatnot?

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-fREW

Re: turn off globbing sometimes

[Clint Adams]

> Is there a way that I can turn off globing for a certain command so
> that I won't have to quote stars and whatnot?

Search the documentation for 'noglob'.

Re: turn off globbing sometimes

[fREW]

Awesome, thanks!

If anyone else wants to do this, what I did was instead of typing

noglob command *(stuff)

I just aliased the command to include noglob, like so:

alias command="noglob command"

-- 
-fREW

Re: turn off globbing sometimes

[fREW]

What you could do is have two commands, one being an alias to
noglob scp
and the other being vanilla scp
So like:

alias pcp='noglob scp'

pcp remote:foo/* .
scp * remote:foo/

Just a thought.

On 6/26/07, Richard Hartmann <richih.mailinglist@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> > alias command="noglob command"
>
> How could I turn globbing off for the _remote_ part of scp?
>
> I.e.
> scp remote:foo/* .
> should not expand, while
> scp * remote:foo/
> should expand normally. Any ideas?
>
>
> Richard


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-fREW

Re: turn off globbing sometimes

[Phil Pennock]

>  On 6/26/07, Richard Hartmann <richih.mailinglist@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > > alias command="noglob command"
> >
> > How could I turn globbing off for the _remote_ part of scp?
> >
> > I.e.
> > scp remote:foo/* .
> > should not expand, while
> > scp * remote:foo/
> > should expand normally. Any ideas?


alias scp='noglob scp_wrap'
function scp_wrap {
	local -a args
	local i
	for i in "$@"; do case $i in
		(*:*) args+=($i) ;;
		(*) args+=(${~i}) ;;
	esac; done
	command scp "${(@)args}"
}

There's probably a way to inline the ~ GLOB_SUBST enabling only on
elements of an array matching a pattern, whilst leaving the array
element ordering unmutated.

Regards,
-Phil

Re: turn off globbing sometimes

[Peter Stephenson]

> On 6/26/07, Richard Hartmann <richih.mailinglist@gmail.com> wrote:
>> How could I turn globbing off for the _remote_ part of scp?
>>
>> I.e.
>> scp remote:foo/* .
>> should not expand, while
>> scp * remote:foo/
>> should expand normally. Any ideas?

"setopt nonomatch" is a pretty good approximation to this, unless
you really have files called remote:foo/* on the disk.

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Re: turn off globbing sometimes

[Wayne Davison]

On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 10:27:07AM +0100, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> "setopt nonomatch" is a pretty good approximation to this, unless
> you really have files called remote:foo/* on the disk.

Going that route, you should also make sure that nonull_glob and
nocsh_null_glob are set, otherwise you can lose an arg or get an
error (the latter if csh_null_glob is set and there's only one
wildcard expression).

..wayne..