From: Dominik Vogt <dominik.vogt@gmx.de>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: Most Recent File
Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2021 02:37:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YXS46cdXUNZJEPFi@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP+y1xC3Dx74sBaCf8mgmEcOMh+hUH6zAdt236k=JTjw4-cBqQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, Oct 24, 2021 at 02:24:04AM +0200, Pier Paolo Grassi wrote:
> >That doesn't work because if one of the file names has a newline in
> >it, (f) will split it into two words. (Also I think you left out an
> >open paren.)
>
> sorry about that, I haven't ever considered newlines in filenames, since I
> wouldn't put them in the first place.
Maybe just stop putting spaces in filenames. Unix systems are
cluttered with scripts and other programs that cannot handle
whitespace, asterisks, hyphens, semicola and other charaters with
a special shell or program meaning anyway. (The vast majority of
people forget to put variables in double quotes in their scripts.)
Passing funny file names to programs is asking for trouble. In
the worst case it can destroy or compromise your system.
You could try this solution where the most recent entries are
automatically put into an array (needs some work to deal with *
matching nothing):
precmd () { __recent=( *(-om) ) }
$ ls -- "${(@)__recent[1,3]}"
Or if it's only about ls, you could write a function "ls-recent"
that implements the logic.
The suggestions with "eval" or automatic unquoting of values may
be a path to disaster.
Ciao
Dominik ^_^ ^_^
--
Dominik Vogt
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-10-24 1:41 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
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 ` Dominik Vogt [this message]
2021-10-23 16:47 ` Most Recent File david rayner
2021-10-23 16:54 ` Vin Shelton
2021-10-23 16:51 ` david rayner
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