From: dana <dana@dana.is>
To: Chris Nebel <c.nebel@mac.com>
Cc: zsh-users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: Use of (e:...:) glob qualifier with _files -g?
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2019 00:56:47 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8F91689D-3069-4A1F-A4B2-3BF6F009B878@dana.is> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <206B06E5-8D28-4132-A0CC-BE070F9A5F7C@mac.com>
On 4 Nov 2019, at 00:08, Chris Nebel <c.nebel@mac.com> wrote:
> *(e:'file -bz $REPLY | grep -wq archive')
I'm not sure that's even a good idea. You'd be running an external process
against every single file the function encountered. On network drives or in
directories with many files that could take a while.
Also, i've never used darwinup, but it looks to me like it supports only a
select number of archive formats, which are guessed based on the file
extension and enumerated here:
https://github.com/macosforge/darwinbuild/blob/master/darwinup/Archive.cpp#L323
If that's the case, you should be able to just use '*.(tar|zip|whatever)',
which is much simpler and faster.
With that said, to answer your actual question, i think the reason it doesn't
work is that _files has an undocumented feature where if it detects unescaped
white space in the pattern it assumes that you're trying to supply *multiple*
patterns to be transformed into a brace expansion. Maybe there is some very
fancy quoting you can do to make that work, but at that point i think using
the + qualifier would be easier.
dana
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-11-04 6:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-11-04 6:08 Chris Nebel
2019-11-04 6:56 ` dana [this message]
2019-11-04 20:41 ` Chris Nebel
2019-11-04 20:50 ` Chris Nebel
2019-11-04 21:24 ` Bart Schaefer
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