avoid file not found error with { .. } expansion

avoid file not found error with { .. } expansion

[Eric Smith]

What would be the correct invocation for this:

$ xview {02..19}.*jpg
zsh: no matches found: 04.*jpg

in order to avoid the error of files not being found.

Thanks

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Eric Smith

Re: avoid file not found error with { .. } expansion

[Peter Stephenson]

Eric Smith wrote:
> What would be the correct invocation for this:
> 
> $ xview {02..19}.*jpg
> zsh: no matches found: 04.*jpg
> 
> in order to avoid the error of files not being found.

The main thing to remember is the mantra `brace expansion is not
globbing'.  When you use braces, all elements are generated regardless.
Here, you get:

  xview 02.*jpg 03.*jpg 04.*jpg  ...  19.*jpg

before globbing kicks in.

Are you simply trying to match a set of numbered files of which you're
pretty sure some are there, but not all?  Then the obvious thing to try
is:

 xview <2-19>.*jpg

There's no special handling for a leading zero here, but it will match
one if present.

If you want to be strict about the numeric format, then you need to keep
the braces.  Luckily, in this case you still have the `*', so the set
of arguments generated are still globbing patterns.  Thus you can get
away with:

  xview {02..19}.*jpg(N)

which turns on the NULL_GLOB option for all the patterns.  Then any that
don't match anything will simply be removed.

What you *might* want in this case is for an error to be caused if and
only if there were no matches to any pattern.  With the form in angle
brackets, that's what you get with your current option settings (since
there is only one pattern).  With the form in braces, you would need to
`setopt csh_null_glob' to get this:

  setopt cshnullglob
  xview {02..19}.*jpg

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Re: avoid file not found error with { .. } expansion

[Thomas Köhler]

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Eric Smith wrote:
> What would be the correct invocation for this:
> 
> $ xview {02..19}.*jpg
> zsh: no matches found: 04.*jpg
> 
> in order to avoid the error of files not being found.

I think you want something like this :-)

xview <02-19>*.jpg

Ciao,
Thomas

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regexing to remove punctutation in telephone numbers

[Eric Smith]

Could someone suggest a neat zsh way to convert

$ myfax 00-(123) 4567-890 _some_file_name_ AnotherFileName.ps whatever

to

001234567890 _some_file_name_ AnotherFileName.ps whatever

thanks a lot ...

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Eric Smith

Re: regexing to remove punctutation in telephone numbers

[Peter Stephenson]

Eric Smith wrote:
> Could someone suggest a neat zsh way to convert
> 
> $ myfax 00-(123) 4567-890 _some_file_name_ AnotherFileName.ps whatever
> 
> to
> 
> 001234567890 _some_file_name_ AnotherFileName.ps whatever

I don't know how flexible you want to be, but:

myfax () {
        command myfax "${1//[-()]}${2//[-()]}" ${argv[3,-1]}
}

removes the offending characters from the first two arguments and
joins them together.

pws


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Re: regexing to remove punctutation in telephone numbers

[Eric Smith]

Peter Stephenson said:
> Eric Smith wrote:
> > Could someone suggest a neat zsh way to convert
> > 
> > $ myfax 00-(123) 4567-890 _some_file_name_ AnotherFileName.ps whatever
> > 
> > to
> > 
> > 001234567890 _some_file_name_ AnotherFileName.ps whatever
> 
> I don't know how flexible you want to be, but:

Thanks Peter,

Thats exactly the point ...

> 
> myfax () {
>         command myfax "${1//[-()]}${2//[-()]}" ${argv[3,-1]}
> }

There can be n number of args with the offending punctutation characters.  
And n should be determined from the first arg that commences in a non
[-()0-9] character.

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Eric Smith

Re: regexing to remove punctutation in telephone numbers

[Oliver Kiddle]

Eric Smith wrote:
> 
> > 
> > myfax () {
> >         command myfax "${1//[-()]}${2//[-()]}" ${argv[3,-1]}
> > }
> 
> There can be n number of args with the offending punctutation characters.  
> And n should be determined from the first arg that commences in a non
> [-()0-9] character.

myfax() {
  local last=${argv[(i)[^-()0-9]*]}
 
  command myfax "${(j..)argv[1,last-1]//[-()]}" "$argv[last,-1]"   
}

That uses the (i) subscript flag to find the first arg commencing with
a different character. I'd be inclined to check all characters:
  (^[-()0-9]#)
You could use a loop to do the same.