From: Daniel Shahaf <d.s@daniel.shahaf.name>
To: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
Cc: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: globbing in conditional expressions
Date: Fri, 30 May 2014 14:45:09 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140530144509.GC1868@tarsus.local2> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <140529205956.ZM17410@torch.brasslantern.com>
Bart Schaefer wrote on Thu, May 29, 2014 at 20:59:56 -0700:
> On May 26, 11:52pm, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> }
> }
> } Bart Schaefer wrote on Thu, May 15, 2014 at 07:50:03 -0700:
> } > adding a globbing flag (#X) [where I'm using X as a placeholder rather
> } > than a suggestion for the actual flag] which means that the glob returns
> } > only the first matching file it stumbles upon.
> } >
> } > In fact if you had that flag you wouldn't need -m as a condition op, it
> } > would suffice to do [ ! -z pat(NX) ].
> }
> } That turned out to be much less code to implement. It's attached, if
> } anyone finds it useful.
>
> I like this one. Is there a mnemonic for your choice of (Y) ?
No.
That said, if it's to be commonly used with (N), then (NY) does serve as
a memorable syntax.
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Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-07 12:41 Roman Neuhauser
2014-05-07 14:44 ` Peter Stephenson
2014-05-08 10:55 ` Daniel Shahaf
2014-05-08 11:20 ` Peter Stephenson
2014-05-08 15:34 ` Bart Schaefer
2014-05-08 20:19 ` Roman Neuhauser
2014-05-13 15:41 ` Bart Schaefer
2014-05-14 4:19 ` Daniel Shahaf
2014-05-14 7:18 ` Bart Schaefer
2014-05-15 4:55 ` Bart Schaefer
2014-05-15 9:35 ` Daniel Shahaf
2014-05-15 14:33 ` Bart Schaefer
2014-05-15 9:29 ` Daniel Shahaf
2014-05-15 14:50 ` Bart Schaefer
2014-05-26 23:52 ` Daniel Shahaf
2014-05-30 3:59 ` Bart Schaefer
2014-05-30 8:47 ` Peter Stephenson
2014-05-30 15:55 ` Bart Schaefer
2014-05-31 4:43 ` Bart Schaefer
2014-05-31 17:34 ` Daniel Shahaf
2014-05-31 17:59 ` Bart Schaefer
2014-06-02 9:40 ` Peter Stephenson
2014-06-02 12:57 ` Daniel Shahaf
2014-06-02 14:15 ` Peter Stephenson
2014-05-30 14:45 ` Daniel Shahaf [this message]
2014-05-14 7:42 ` Christoph (Stucki) von Stuckrad
2014-05-14 21:09 ` Roman Neuhauser
2014-05-15 9:14 ` Daniel Shahaf
2014-05-15 10:05 ` Roman Neuhauser
2014-05-07 14:57 ` Mikael Magnusson
2014-05-07 15:03 ` Bart Schaefer
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