ZSH Find command replacement

ZSH Find command replacement

[Aki Hoji]

Hi all,

recently switched to ZSH.  I have a quick question.  What is the shortest ZSH command equivalent of a following command ? 

find . -ctime -1 -type d -exec mv {} /foo/ ; 

Thanks in advance. 

Aki

Re: ZSH Find command replacement

[Daniel Shahaf]

Aki Hoji wrote on Fri, Apr 04, 2014 at 16:18:58 -0400:
> recently switched to ZSH.  I have a quick question.  What is the shortest ZSH command equivalent of a following command ? 
> 
> find . -ctime -1 -type d -exec mv {} /foo/ ; 

I'd start with:

    echo mv -- *(/ch-1) /foo/

The *(...) syntax is documented in "Glob Qualifiers" in zshexpn(1).  The
'c' restricts ctime to the last 1 hour to and the '/' restricts to directories.

I added a '--' for safety (in case a filename begins with a minus),
but that's not specific to zsh; the 'find' version needs it too
(as in, '-exec mv -- {} ... ;').

Re: ZSH Find command replacement

[Michal Politowski]

On Sat,  5 Apr 2014 06:53:57 +0000, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> Aki Hoji wrote on Fri, Apr 04, 2014 at 16:18:58 -0400:
> > recently switched to ZSH.  I have a quick question.  What is the shortest ZSH command equivalent of a following command ? 
> > 
> > find . -ctime -1 -type d -exec mv {} /foo/ ; 
[...]
> I added a '--' for safety (in case a filename begins with a minus),
> but that's not specific to zsh; the 'find' version needs it too
> (as in, '-exec mv -- {} ... ;').

Actually it doesn't, as the paths find will give to mv will start with
'./' here, so any minus in a filename won't be at the start of an argument.

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Michał Politowski
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