* globbing based on symlink contents
@ 1997-06-18 14:43 Roderick Schertler
1997-06-18 15:16 ` Zefram
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From: Roderick Schertler @ 1997-06-18 14:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: zsh-users
It would be great to be able to glob based on the contents of symlinks.
(That's not already possible, is it? I've been resorting to find.)
--
Roderick Schertler
roderick@argon.org
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* Re: globbing based on symlink contents
1997-06-18 14:43 globbing based on symlink contents Roderick Schertler
@ 1997-06-18 15:16 ` Zefram
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From: Zefram @ 1997-06-18 15:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Roderick Schertler; +Cc: zsh-users
Roderick Schertler wrote:
>It would be great to be able to glob based on the contents of symlinks.
>(That's not already possible, is it? I've been resorting to find.)
It's not already possible. And I think it would not be sufficient.
There will always be another way the people will want to glob. The only
really general way to do it is to glob using arbitrary shell code as
the criterion. How about a syntax like
linkmatch () {
local a
stat -L -A a $1
[[ "$a[14]" == $~2 ]]
}
echo *(f{linkmatch}{foo*bar})
?
-zefram
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