From: Vin Shelton <acs@alumni.princeton.edu> To: Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com> Cc: Zsh-Users List <zsh-users@zsh.org> Subject: Re: Most Recent File Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2021 15:07:58 -0400 [thread overview] Message-ID: <CACeGjnVEN_zXR1xVk=UCOpBh7afAD7+5vGxfBJOkfgOnSa+oyw@mail.gmail.com> (raw) In-Reply-To: <0b757d10f1a2374d5a84199fbed71314e16fea63.camel@ntlworld.com> [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 1225 bytes --] Thanks. I had attempted to strip away unnecessary complexity from my problem, but I now see that was a mistake. I have a function, recent: # Print the names of the most recent files in the specified directory. # Usage: recent [count [file_pattern]]] [directory] # count defaults to 1 # file_pattern defaults to * # directory defaults to the current directory. local dir= if [[ $# -gt 2 ]]; then if [[ ! -d "$3" ]]; then print -u2 "$0: directory \"$3\" does not exist." return 1 fi [[ $3 != '.' ]] && dir="$3"/ fi print -l -- ${dir}${~2:-*}(-om[1,${1:-1}]) So far, so good. recent 3 ==> zsh/ Any Given Sunday.mkv TheEnglishPatient.mkv BUT ls -ld $( recent 3 ) ==> /usr/bin/ls: cannot access 'Any': No such file or directory /usr/bin/ls: cannot access 'Given': No such file or directory /usr/bin/ls: cannot access 'Sunday.mkv': No such file or directory -rw-r--r-- 1 acs acs 727146010 Oct 22 15:52 TheEnglishPatient.mkv drwxr-xr-x 3 acs acs 3488 Oct 23 12:20 zsh/ I would like to make the second example work. I don't particularly care how the first example looks. Do I really have to use an external command (like `printf') to make this work? - Vin [-- Attachment #2: Type: text/html, Size: 4372 bytes --]
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-10-23 19:09 UTC|newest] Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top 2021-10-23 16:15 Vin Shelton 2021-10-23 16:43 ` Dominik Vogt 2021-10-23 16:58 ` Peter Stephenson 2021-10-23 17:24 ` Dominik Vogt 2021-10-23 17:32 ` Peter Stephenson 2021-10-23 18:39 ` Bart Schaefer 2021-10-23 19:07 ` Vin Shelton [this message] 2021-10-23 19:26 ` Bart Schaefer 2021-10-23 20:43 ` Vin Shelton 2021-10-23 20:56 ` Pier Paolo Grassi 2021-10-23 22:42 ` Bart Schaefer 2021-10-24 0:24 ` Pier Paolo Grassi 2021-10-24 0:32 ` Paul 2021-10-24 1:45 ` Dominik Vogt 2021-10-24 7:22 ` Roman Perepelitsa 2021-10-25 19:45 ` Disabling null elision (was: Re: Most Recent File) Daniel Shahaf 2021-10-25 20:02 ` Roman Perepelitsa 2021-10-25 20:41 ` Daniel Shahaf 2021-10-25 21:00 ` Ray Andrews 2021-10-25 21:09 ` Bart Schaefer 2021-10-25 21:05 ` Bart Schaefer 2021-10-25 21:20 ` Roman Perepelitsa 2021-10-25 20:05 ` Bart Schaefer 2021-10-24 1:37 ` Most Recent File Dominik Vogt 2021-10-23 16:47 ` david rayner 2021-10-23 16:54 ` Vin Shelton 2021-10-23 16:51 ` david rayner
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