From: Paul Hoffman <nkuitse@nkuitse.com>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: truncating string in .zprofile
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 08:34:09 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130321123409.GA19945@phisen.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailbox-25186-1363812608-77606@pepper.0.0.200>
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 09:54:48PM +0100, Eric Smith wrote:
> I did this -
> preexec () { print -Pn
> "\033k\033\134\033k[${1[1,12]}..${1[-6,$]}]\033\134" }
>
> How would I do arbitrary string searching and replacement in the `$1'?
Any way you want -- grep, sed, or plain zsh.
preexec() {
print -Pn "\033k\033\134\033k[$(
print -n 'uptime: '
uptime | perl -pe ...
)]\033\134"
}
Paul.
--
Paul Hoffman <nkuitse@nkuitse.com>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-21 13:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-20 18:28 Eric Smith
2013-03-20 19:41 ` Paul Hoffman
2013-03-20 20:17 ` Eric Smith
2013-03-20 20:45 ` Paul Hoffman
2013-03-20 20:54 ` Eric Smith
2013-03-21 12:34 ` Paul Hoffman [this message]
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