From: Oliver Kiddle <okiddle@yahoo.co.uk>
To: Louis-David Mitterrand <vindex@apartia.org>
Cc: zsh-users@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: <x-y> globing pattern doesn't sort?
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 18:00:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6353.1095091236@trentino.logica.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040913152958.GA19979@apartia.fr>
Louis-David Mitterrand wrote:
> I just tried that:
>
> % bzcat ../patch-2.6.9-rc1.bz2 ../patch-2.6.9-rc1-bk<1-19>.bz2<TAB>
>
> and obtained:
>
> bzcat ../patch-2.6.9-rc1.bz2 ../patch-2.6.9-rc1-bk10.bz2 ../patch-2.6.9-rc1-bk11.bz2 ../patch-2.6.9-rc1-bk12.bz2 ../patch-2.6.9-rc1-bk13.bz2 ../patch-2.6.9-rc1-bk14.bz2 ../patch-2.6.9-rc1-bk15.bz2 ../patch-2.6.9-rc1-bk16.bz2 ../patch-2.6.9-rc1-bk17.bz2 ../patch-2.6.9-rc1-bk18.bz2 ../patch-2.6.9-rc1-bk19.bz2 ../patch-2.6.9-rc1-bk1.bz2 ../patch-2.6.9-rc1-bk2.bz2 ../patch-2.6.9-rc1-bk3.bz2 ../patch-2.6.9-rc1-bk4.bz2 ../patch-2.6.9-rc1-bk5.bz2 ../patch-2.6.9-rc1-bk6.bz2 ../patch-2.6.9-rc1-bk7.bz2 ../patch-2.6.9-rc1-bk8.bz2 ../patch-2.6.9-rc1-bk9.bz2
Is it the order of the expansions that surprised you. It often helps us
understand a point like this if you state what you expected to obtain.
> which really suprised my as I thought the whole point of the <-> pattern
> was to allow for an ordered sequence to be returned (contrary to a
> simple *).
>
> Am I mistaken in that belief?
<-> doesn't expand a sequence in order. Like *, it is just matching
filenames except it looks for a number within a range. Files are matched
and then sorted.
You could use {1..19} for an ordered expansion but that expands
unconditionally: there doesn't need to be existing files with each name
in the sequence.
Alternatively, you can use the (n) glob qualifier to sort the
expansions numerically:
patch*(n)
Oliver
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-13 16:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-13 15:29 Louis-David Mitterrand
2004-09-13 16:00 ` Oliver Kiddle [this message]
2004-09-14 7:20 ` Louis-David Mitterrand
2004-09-13 16:10 ` Peter Stephenson
2004-09-14 7:26 ` Louis-David Mitterrand
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