From: Aryn Starr <whereislelouch@icloud.com>
To: Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com>
Cc: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: Get the result of the last glob
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2019 10:06:51 +0430 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6B392E5A-528B-4E73-8DF4-A10D6775D5FB@icloud.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHYJk3TO-tv0zMXd0Tmka0eX7W45zzCiLOVDoFybjf+hbUQq0A@mail.gmail.com>
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What’s top posting?
Can’t $lastglob be available in the same command? It would be in the same fork, I imagine …
`command * -d $lastglob`
> On Aug 22, 2019, at 1:24 AM, Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 8/21/19, Aryn Starr <whereislelouch@icloud.com> wrote:
>> Thanks. I needed this to be non-interactive, and I indeed created a function
>> for it, I was just wondering if it was possible to get the glob in a magic
>> variable or sth, which it seems it is not.
> [don't top post]
>
> Yes, it's not possible to get anything like $lastglob, because globs
> are expanded after forking¹ to run the external command, so no results
> are available to the interactive shell for subsequent use.
>
> ¹ if you're not running an external command it would theoretically be
> possible, but it would be an inconsistent interface.
>
> --
> Mikael Magnusson
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-22 5:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-21 13:21 Aryn Starr
2019-08-21 14:31 ` Daniel Shahaf
2019-08-21 14:34 ` Daniel Shahaf
2019-08-21 14:40 ` Aryn Starr
2019-08-21 14:47 ` Daniel Shahaf
2019-08-21 20:54 ` Mikael Magnusson
2019-08-22 5:36 ` Aryn Starr [this message]
[not found] ` <6B392E5A-528B-4E73-8DF4-A10D6775D5FB__35805.0242810108$1566452299$gmane$org@icloud.com>
2019-08-22 7:32 ` Stephane Chazelas
2019-08-22 7:35 ` Aryn Starr
[not found] <918ED85F-9DE5-4365-B962-45AD4AADDF46__5329.09398186661$1566393766$gmane$org@icloud.com>
2019-08-21 15:17 ` Stephane Chazelas
2019-08-21 15:43 ` Bart Schaefer
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