From: Roman Perepelitsa <roman.perepelitsa@gmail.com>
To: Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com>
Cc: linuxtechguy@gmail.com, zsh <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: special characters in file names issue
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2023 15:28:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAN=4vMrhBCPMP5XeS4KSmK+jBodr2UQfPYcLjdLbdww65OToeA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHYJk3RyOF_+VcfAjZOaffij3bsdA8W8fELrq_StXyFhJ6qBSQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, 10 Nov 2023 at 15:17, Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/10/23, Roman Perepelitsa <roman.perepelitsa@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 10, 2023 at 12:17 AM Jim <linux.tech.guy@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi everyone,
> >>
> >> Using scripts, looking to cleanup duplicate files even if named
> >> differently.
> >> The issue I ran into is when a file path contains parentheses. '(' or
> ')'
> >>
> >> Example File Name: Wallpapers/Web_downloads/05 (1).jpg
> >>
> >> The following is part of an anonymous function:
> >>
> >> local E
> >> local -a AllFileNames
> >> local -A FileNameCkSum
> >> ...
> >> for E (${(@)AllFileNames}) {
> >> [[ -v FileNameCkSum[$E] ]] || FileNameCkSum[$E]=${$(shasum -a 1 $E)[1]}
> }
> >> # line that fails
> >> ...
> >>
> >> AllFileName contains the result of a glob statement.
> >>
> >> Error Message: (anon):<line no>: invalid subscript
> >
> > Associative arrays in zsh are finicky when it comes to the content of
> > their keys. The problem you are experiencing can be distilled to this:
> >
> > % typeset -A dict
> > % key='('
> > % [[ -v dict[$key] ]]
> > zsh: invalid subscript
> >
> > There is no simple quoting that you can apply to $key here: (q), (b),
> > etc. are all wrong. You could perhaps escape a specific list of
> > characters ('(', '[', '{' but not '$' or '*') although my memory tells
> > me that some keys cannot be made to work under `[[ -v ...]]` or
> > `unset` no matter how you try to escape them. I could be wrong though.
>
> Not sure why I didn't get this error when testing yesterday, but in
> this case you can also avoid it by using the more typical ((
> $+dict[$key] )) test instead of [[ -v ...]].
Indeed. The two capricious constructs I know of that dislike weird keys are `[[
-v ... ]]` and `unset ...`.
Roman.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-11-10 14:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-11-09 23:16 Jim
2023-11-10 5:04 ` Mikael Magnusson
2023-11-10 9:50 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2023-11-10 14:17 ` Mikael Magnusson
2023-11-10 14:28 ` Roman Perepelitsa [this message]
2023-11-11 18:26 ` Jim
2023-11-10 16:33 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2023-11-10 17:02 ` Bart Schaefer
2023-11-10 20:37 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2023-11-11 0:13 ` Bart Schaefer
2023-11-11 17:18 ` Ray Andrews
2023-11-11 18:19 ` Bart Schaefer
2023-11-11 18:52 ` Ray Andrews
2023-11-11 18:26 ` Jim
2023-11-12 0:08 ` Bart Schaefer
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