From: Peter Stephenson <p.stephenson@samsung.com>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: Repeat argument N times?
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 09:56:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140730095657.6421d493@pwslap01u.europe.root.pri> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <140729234830.ZM20800@torch.brasslantern.com>
On Tue, 29 Jul 2014 23:48:30 -0700
Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com> wrote:
> There are other ways, e.g.
>
> upload-files file2(e{'repeat 10 reply+=($REPLY)'})
>
> though the latter requires "file2" to actually exist, which sometimes
> might be a good thing.
If you don't mind a limited repertoire of counts explicitly constructed,
you can make this method look close to what you want.
% define-x() { eval "x$1() { typeset -ga reply; repeat $1 reply+=(\$REPLY) }" }
% define-x 3
% print .zshrc(+x3)
.zshrc .zshrc .zshrc
pws
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-30 8:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-30 3:12 Benjamin R. Haskell
2014-07-30 6:48 ` Bart Schaefer
2014-07-30 8:56 ` Peter Stephenson [this message]
2014-07-30 14:10 ` Roman Neuhauser
2014-07-30 14:41 ` Roman Neuhauser
2014-07-31 15:59 ` Mikael Magnusson
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