* Re: Globbing in a function (was Re: globbing for links in pathnames)
@ 1999-02-06 4:27 Bart Schaefer
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From: Bart Schaefer @ 1999-02-06 4:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Sweth Chandramouli, zsh-users
On Feb 5, 6:48pm, Sweth Chandramouli wrote:
} Subject: Globbing in a function (was Re: globbing for links in pathnames)
}
} (astaroth)~/.zfunc: which binlink
} binlink () {
} BINLIST=($1(*)) eval 'for BIN in ${=BINLIST} ; do
} ln -s ${BIN} /usr/local/bin ;
} done'
} }
} (astaroth)~/.zfunc: binlink \*
} zsh: no matches found: *(*)
Remember what I said a couple of postings ago about parameter expansion?
When a parameter is replaced by its value, the string is not tokenized.
Thus BINLIST=($1(*)) is effectively the same as BINLIST=("*"(*)). If
you use the ~ flag on the parameter expansion, tokenization is done and
you'll get the glob you expect.
Also, you don't need the = in ${=BINLIST} because BINLIST is already an
array. If you ever try to binlink a file with spaces in its name, that
extra word-split will bite you.
Finally, "ln -s" isn't going to do the right thing unless you give it a
full path (or one relative to /usr/local/bin, which could be computed if
you really work at it, but a full path is easier).
So, change the function to
binlink () {
BINLIST=($~1(*)) eval 'for BIN in $BINLIST ; do
ln -s $PWD/$BIN /usr/local/bin ;
done'
}
and it should work.
However, a better way to write that particular function would be:
binlink () {
argv=($^~==*(*))
ln -s "$PWD/$^@" /usr/local/bin
}
Can you figure out what that's doing?
--
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* Globbing in a function (was Re: globbing for links in pathnames)
@ 1999-02-05 23:48 Sweth Chandramouli
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From: Sweth Chandramouli @ 1999-02-05 23:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: zsh-users
On Thu, Feb 04, 1999 at 09:07:55PM -0800, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> On Feb 4, 11:22pm, Sweth Chandramouli wrote:
> } so it should end up something like the following:
> }
> } x=(pkgs/*(@)) ; ls -d ${^x}/man(/)
>
> The reason I used the eval was to avoid having x remain set after the
> command completes. `x=(*(@)) eval ...` will unset x again at the end
> of the eval, and won't destroy any existing value of x.
i have a function that i use to link executables from where i
normally install them to (usually /opt/wherever) to /usr/local/bin.
i was trying to rewrite it using this sort of format (rather than
invoking find, as i was doing before), but am running afoul of something
that i can't quite figure out. the i've hacked out some stuff at the
beginning (to allow me to pass it options) for the sake of clarity; the
interesting part is this:
(astaroth)~/.zfunc: BINLIST=(*(*)) ; echo $BINLIST ; unset BINLIST
binlink cwhois gpid mck newm newterm nobrs perf xbuffy xt xtitle
(astaroth)~/.zfunc: which binlink
binlink () {
BINLIST=($1(*)) eval 'for BIN in ${=BINLIST} ; do
ln -s ${BIN} /usr/local/bin ;
done'
}
(astaroth)~/.zfunc: binlink \*
zsh: no matches found: *(*)
putting an echo in at the end confirms that BINLIST in
the function is, when binlink is given an escaped asterisk as
its argument, being set to (*(*)); since parameter expansion
occurs before filename generation, why doesn't setting BINLIST
to that value in the function do the same thing that it does
from the command line?
-- sweth.
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