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From: Michel <michel.barret@gmail.com>
To: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
Cc: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: executing commands in directories containing specific files
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 09:33:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADprNYmKm2ezqaRsxBzYnrkzSkVgYeU6L6Bp8uZea60_MYUYjA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <140211211309.ZM24838@torch.brasslantern.com>

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>
> I like using the (e) flag, but it's sometimes tricky to get right on the
> first try because you have to be careful to match up the parens in the
> reply=(...) assignment, the quotes around the expression, the outer set
> of delimiters (I used [...] below) and the parens around the whole thing:
>
>     rm **/*.tex(.e['reply=(${REPLY:r}.aux)'])
>
> But you can also use colon-modifiers as glob qualifiers, so if the .tex
> never appears anywhere but at the end:
>
>     rm **/*.tex(.:s/.tex/.aux)
>

thanks for this solutions interesting !


>
> If you've already got the filenames, say, in an array:
>
>     texi=( $(find $HOME -type f -name '*.tex') )
>

Why use find instead the glob way :
texi=( **/*.tex(.) )

When the result is use as a stream find is a beter way but to create an
array ?
_____________________
Michel BARRET

  reply	other threads:[~2014-02-12  8:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-12  0:11 Leonardo Barbosa
2014-02-12  0:35 ` Jan Larres
2014-02-12  1:17   ` Philip Dexter
2014-02-12  2:17     ` Jan Larres
2014-02-12  1:53 ` Chris Johnson
2014-02-12  5:13 ` Bart Schaefer
2014-02-12  8:33   ` Michel [this message]
2014-02-12  9:44     ` Leonardo Barbosa
2014-02-12 18:33     ` Bart Schaefer

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