From: Daniel Shahaf <d.s@daniel.shahaf.name>
To: zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: (Y) modifier: up to N matches?
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2014 18:23:46 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140602182346.GB1858@tarsus.local2> (raw)
Right now, *(NY) expands to either zero or one filenames.
Would it make sense to have (Y) take a numeric argument specifying the maximal
number of files to match? e.g., *(NY5) would expand to between 0 and 5
filenames (but never more than 5).
I think it will be a small code change (just check matchct when deciding
whether to return) and will work nicely with other qualifiers (eg sorting)
without special effort. It would be a superset of the current functionality
[(NY1) would be equivalent to the current (NY)].
I imagine it would be useful in cases where 'find | head' or 'grep | head' are
useful.
Thoughts?
next reply other threads:[~2014-06-02 18:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-02 18:23 Daniel Shahaf [this message]
2014-06-03 3:46 ` Bart Schaefer
2014-06-04 2:08 ` [PATCH] " Daniel Shahaf
2014-06-04 6:01 ` Mikael Magnusson
2014-06-04 6:54 ` Bart Schaefer
2014-06-04 6:42 ` Bart Schaefer
2014-06-04 9:25 ` Peter Stephenson
2014-06-04 23:08 ` Daniel Shahaf
2014-06-04 23:16 ` Bart Schaefer
2014-06-05 4:45 ` Bart Schaefer
2014-06-05 23:24 ` Oliver Kiddle
2014-06-06 2:20 ` Bart Schaefer
2014-06-06 2:40 ` Daniel Shahaf
2014-06-06 2:45 ` Daniel Shahaf
2014-06-06 4:24 ` Bart Schaefer
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