From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: zsh workers <zsh-workers@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: extra arguments inserted by glob thinger e:: get sorted afterwards
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2010 08:50:31 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <100205085031.ZM12282@torch.brasslantern.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201002051549.o15Fn9lr024564@news01.csr.com>
On Feb 5, 3:49pm, Peter Stephenson wrote:
}
} Mikael Magnusson wrote:
} > Hi, someone just asked on irc how to give a globbed list of files to a
} > program with a -f inserted before each argument, so I told him
} > *(e:'reply=(-f $REPLY)':), that doesn't work however, as the arguments
} > are resorted afterwards, which seems like the less useful way to do
} > it.
}
} It's the *only* way to do it. The arguments are all assumed to be
} files, which is after all the point of globbing. Either you get them
} sorted as files or you don't get them sorted.
I suppose what Mikael would like is for "-f $REPLY" to be glob-sorted
as a unit, but still word-split at parse time. Breaks if the actual
file name has spaces.
The manual sort of implies that *(e.'reply+="-f $REPLY"'.:x) should be
the way to do this -- glob first, then split the result into words at
whitespace after; the doc says only that :x doesn't work for parameters,
failing to mention that it doesn't work for globbing either. However,
there's an equally good argument that the :x would apply before sorting,
if it worked at all.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-05 16:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-05 15:15 Mikael Magnusson
2010-02-05 15:49 ` Peter Stephenson
2010-02-05 16:50 ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
2010-02-08 10:08 ` Jörg Sommer
2010-02-08 12:44 ` Frank Terbeck
2010-02-08 17:16 ` Mikael Magnusson
2010-02-08 17:42 ` Bart Schaefer
2010-02-08 18:01 ` Peter Stephenson
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