* ^foo^bar question
@ 2006-03-01 16:02 Francisco Borges
2006-03-01 16:17 ` Chris Johnson
2006-03-01 16:35 ` Peter Stephenson
0 siblings, 2 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Francisco Borges @ 2006-03-01 16:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Zsh User
Hello!
I recently started using the ^foo^bar trick a lot. However I discovered
that if I use:
% mv ../2500s_4p_3ftr.txt 4p
% ^4^8
% mv ../2500s_8p_3ftr.txt 4p # second "4" is unchanged.
^^^^
where only the first string occurence gets replaced. This happens with
4.2.5, 4.3.0-dev-1 and 4.3.1. Is this the intended behavior?
Is there any way to get multiple substitutions using ^foo^bar?
(I know I can use !!:gs/foo/bar)
Using "s/foo/bar" only changes the first occurence but that's documented in
the manual, while ^foo^bar does not mention "first occurence only"... so
thought I should ask.
BTW, Great to see 4.3.1 being released. Big thanks to all developers!!
Francisco.
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* Re: ^foo^bar question
2006-03-01 16:02 ^foo^bar question Francisco Borges
@ 2006-03-01 16:17 ` Chris Johnson
2006-03-01 16:39 ` [zsh] " Francisco Borges
2006-03-01 16:35 ` Peter Stephenson
1 sibling, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Chris Johnson @ 2006-03-01 16:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Zsh User, f.borges
Francisco Borges sent me the following 0.7K:
> Hello!
>
> I recently started using the ^foo^bar trick a lot. However I discovered
> that if I use:
>
> % mv ../2500s_4p_3ftr.txt 4p
> % ^4^8
> % mv ../2500s_8p_3ftr.txt 4p # second "4" is unchanged.
> ^^^^
> where only the first string occurence gets replaced. This happens with
> 4.2.5, 4.3.0-dev-1 and 4.3.1. Is this the intended behavior?
>
> Is there any way to get multiple substitutions using ^foo^bar?
This just came up a few months ago on this list, 'cuz I was wondering
the same thing. You can check the archives for the whole discussion.
Peter was working on some things to allow multiple substitutions with
that syntax, but I was also informed of this trick:
% mv ../2500s_4p_3ftr.txt 4p
% r 4=8
--
Chris Johnson
cjohnson@cs.utk.edu
http://www.cs.utk.edu/~cjohnson
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* Re: [zsh] Re: ^foo^bar question
2006-03-01 16:17 ` Chris Johnson
@ 2006-03-01 16:39 ` Francisco Borges
0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Francisco Borges @ 2006-03-01 16:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Zsh User
» On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 11:17AM -0500, Chris Johnson wrote:
> This just came up a few months ago on this list, 'cuz I was wondering
> the same thing. You can check the archives for the whole discussion.
> Peter was working on some things to allow multiple substitutions with
> that syntax, but I was also informed of this trick:
>
> % mv ../2500s_4p_3ftr.txt 4p
> % r 4=8
Oops... I think I failed escaping the caret when googling for it.
I found the thread directly in the list archives.
Thanks!
Francisco
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* Re: ^foo^bar question
2006-03-01 16:02 ^foo^bar question Francisco Borges
2006-03-01 16:17 ` Chris Johnson
@ 2006-03-01 16:35 ` Peter Stephenson
1 sibling, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Peter Stephenson @ 2006-03-01 16:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Zsh users list
Francisco Borges wrote:
> % mv ../2500s_4p_3ftr.txt 4p
> % ^4^8
> % mv ../2500s_8p_3ftr.txt 4p # second "4" is unchanged.
> ^^^^
> where only the first string occurence gets replaced. This happens with
> 4.2.5, 4.3.0-dev-1 and 4.3.1. Is this the intended behavior?
>
> Is there any way to get multiple substitutions using ^foo^bar?
>..
> BTW, Great to see 4.3.1 being released. Big thanks to all developers!!
If you've got 4.3.1 you can now use:
^foo^bar^:G
to do what you want.
--
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