From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14516 invoked by alias); 27 Mar 2018 23:32:36 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@zsh.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes List-Id: Zsh Users List List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: X-Seq: 23284 Received: (qmail 13295 invoked by uid 1010); 27 Mar 2018 23:32:36 -0000 X-Qmail-Scanner-Diagnostics: from mta03.eastlink.ca by f.primenet.com.au (envelope-from , uid 7791) with qmail-scanner-2.11 (clamdscan: 0.99.2/21882. spamassassin: 3.4.1. Clear:RC:0(24.224.136.9):SA:0(-1.9/5.0):. Processed in 15.154381 secs); 27 Mar 2018 23:32:36 -0000 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.1 (2015-04-28) on f.primenet.com.au X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,T_HDRS_LCASE, T_MANY_HDRS_LCASE,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD,T_SPF_TEMPERROR autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.1 X-Envelope-From: rayandrews@eastlink.ca X-Qmail-Scanner-Mime-Attachments: | X-Qmail-Scanner-Zip-Files: | MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.3 cv=OKgJIxSB c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=RnRVsdTsRxS/hkU0yKjOWA==:117 a=RnRVsdTsRxS/hkU0yKjOWA==:17 a=IkcTkHD0fZMA:10 a=jY2_7iv9kYIsLQSKTY4A:9 a=QEXdDO2ut3YA:10 X-EL-IP-NOAUTH: 24.207.101.9 To: Zsh Users From: Ray Andrews Subject: smart input Message-id: <4ced3cdc-d77d-fe48-0bbd-980219ab55dc@eastlink.ca> Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2018 16:32:15 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.6.0 Content-language: en-CA I have a function that takes input from a file like so:     input=( ${(f)"$(<$@)"} ) # Read the contents of file I know how to modify that to accept input from an array, but would it be possible to make it smart?  That is, to accept input from either a file or an array as the case may be?  I have some ideas like: " [ -e ... ] " to test if the argument is infact a filename, but is there some elegant method?