From: "Jesper Nygårds" <jesper.nygards@gmail.com>
To: Zsh Users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: Some problems with recursive globbing
Date: Fri, 8 May 2015 05:37:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABZhJg9h6_ZefdUzOF2r7rBjo8xz9NZ4x6bYf-GVZ5KJBs2=sA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABZhJg8xzCNeTNRks2HV8AXTe_Vj9Sf=N3wrOg--kG+uwZWuwg@mail.gmail.com>
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I found a solution to my particular problem. I can quote the dir, and then
remove the quoting of the spaces afterwards.
myfiles() {
emulate -L zsh
setopt LOCAL_OPTIONS EXTENDED_GLOB
local dir="${(q)1:a}/"
dir=${dir/\\\ / }
local filepattern="${dir}**/*"
print -c ${~filepattern}
}
I realize this could brake on even more exotic file names, but for now I'm
happy with this solution.
On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 7:21 PM, Jesper Nygårds <jesper.nygards@gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 7:00 PM, Peter Stephenson <p.stephenson@samsung.com
> > wrote:
>
>> $dir contains a straight string with unquoted parentheses. The
>> ~filepattern then turns those parentheses into pattern characters.
>>
>> Yes, I understand.
>
>
>> I'm not sure why you want filepattern anyway, but
>>
>> I tried to simplify my function to make my problem obvious. In my "real"
> function, I am collecting several function arguments into a combined
> pattern, which is why I need to use this indirect method.
>
> local filepattern="**/*"
>
>> print -c ${dir}${~filepattern}
>>
>> ought to work. Otherwise you'll need to quote metacharacters in dir,
>> which is possible but should be unnecessary.
>>
>
> Yes, but as my second example demonstrates: if I quote my filepattern, it
> then doesn't work for files with spaces in their names. I was hoping for a
> solution where it would be possible to get this to work for both situations.
>
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-05-08 3:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-05-07 14:35 Jesper Nygårds
2015-05-07 15:52 ` Peter Stephenson
2015-05-07 15:59 ` Peter Stephenson
2015-05-07 16:46 ` Jesper Nygårds
2015-05-07 17:00 ` Peter Stephenson
2015-05-07 17:21 ` Jesper Nygårds
2015-05-08 3:37 ` Jesper Nygårds [this message]
2015-05-08 8:40 ` Peter Stephenson
2015-05-08 10:34 ` Jesper Nygårds
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