From: Zach Riggle <zachriggle@gmail.com>
To: Zsh Users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Silly question on :h and = expansion
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2021 12:39:07 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMP9c5m8cBSfzSBgDEvadZFOKNMd7sE-qXFrjCxFKXYj6SDxrQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
Quick question, the answer is probably "just use dirname".
I really like the flexibilty of Zsh expansion, particularly "=foo" to
effectively expand to the full path, and as best I know it's
functionally equivalent to "${commands[foo]}".
I also like the ":h" modifier that's equivalent to "dirname" (and all
of its siblings, but that's the only relevant one for this post).
I would like to simplify the process of "print the directory
containing" or "cd to directory containing" some file in $PATH.
I know I can do either of
* $(basename =foo)
* ${commands[foo]:h}
But I was hoping there was a way to combine the "=" and ":h" expansion
into one line. As best I can tell, there isn't -- but I figured it
was worth asking.
Zach Riggle
next reply other threads:[~2021-08-17 17:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-08-17 17:39 Zach Riggle [this message]
2021-08-17 17:59 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-08-17 21:35 ` Roman Neuhauser
2021-08-17 21:49 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-08-17 23:27 ` Zach Riggle
2021-08-18 0:12 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-08-18 2:55 ` Mikael Magnusson
2021-08-18 3:25 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-08-17 21:31 ` Paul
2021-08-17 21:39 ` Roman Neuhauser
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