From: "Jesper Nygårds" <jesper.nygards@gmail.com>
To: Zsh Users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: Filtering an array of file names
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2016 09:38:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABZhJg8t+VcXOb94Cz9OJNkZaiXsC3n0mQwU7JOP1tJNAkji3Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <160929001853.ZM27784@torch.brasslantern.com>
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Thank you, Bart! This works perfectly.
On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 9:18 AM, Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
wrote:
> On Sep 29, 8:43am, Jesper Nygards wrote:
> }
> } Suppose I have an array of file names, generated from some external
> } program. Is there an zsh-idiomatic way of filtering this array to only
> } keep directories?
>
> Are these local file names that you can compare to the filesystem? If
> so, you can use rc-expand-param and globbing qualifiers:
>
> directories=( ${^allfiles}(/) )
>
> (This didn't work on some old versions of the shell, where qualifiers
> were interpreted only if the preceding word had a globbing character.)
>
> If they don't refer to the local filesystem, you'll need the array to
> have already marked them somehow, such as with a trailing slash, and
> then ${(M)files:#*/} would work.
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-29 7:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-29 6:43 Jesper Nygårds
2016-09-29 7:18 ` Bart Schaefer
2016-09-29 7:38 ` Jesper Nygårds [this message]
2016-09-29 7:54 ` Mikael Magnusson
2016-09-29 15:51 ` Bart Schaefer
[not found] ` <160929001853.ZM27784__20418.9757038423$1475133607$gmane$org@torch.brasslantern.com>
2016-09-29 7:55 ` Daniel Shahaf
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