noglob + find

noglob + find

[Benjamin R. Haskell]

At some point recently, I gave in and tried 'noglob' (usually preferring 
to quote things explicitly, even if it caused occasional annoyance). 
But now I've run into trouble with:

alias find='noglob find'

$ find /tmp/tmp.* -name *.c -mtime -1
find `/tmp/tmp.*': No such file or directory

Is there a nice way to specify 'noglob'-like behavior for the arguments 
after the first dashed argument?  So that I can specify glob patterns as 
the directories, but not have to quote the 'find' patterns?

-- 
Best,
Ben

Re: noglob + find

[Oliver Kiddle]

"Benjamin R. Haskell" wrote:
> alias find='noglob find'
> 
> $ find /tmp/tmp.* -name *.c -mtime -1
> find `/tmp/tmp.*': No such file or directory
> 
> Is there a nice way to specify 'noglob'-like behavior for the arguments 
> after the first dashed argument?  So that I can specify glob patterns as 
> the directories, but not have to quote the 'find' patterns?

No.

What I do is use the expand-word widget to expand the first glob. So
with the cursor positioned after the first *, I press Ctrl-X,* and it
gets expanded on the command-line.

Oliver

Re: noglob + find

[Peter Stephenson]

On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 15:09:18 -0400 (EDT)
"Benjamin R. Haskell" <zsh@benizi.com> wrote:
> alias find='noglob find'
> 
> $ find /tmp/tmp.* -name *.c -mtime -1
> find `/tmp/tmp.*': No such file or directory
> 
> Is there a nice way to specify 'noglob'-like behavior for the arguments 
> after the first dashed argument?

You have to do it other way round: expand the bits you did want globbing
after all.

alias find='noglob find'
'find'() { command find ${~1} "${(@)argv[2,-1]}"; }

(working around all the usual exciting interactions between functions and aliases)
which you can make smarter, to find the first argument with a -.

'find'() { 
  integer i=${argv[(i)-*]}
  command find ${~argv[1,i-1]} "${(@)argv[i,-1]}"
}

is the first-pass version.

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