* Re: SImple way to execute command on list of files?
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@ 2019-04-14 13:50 ` Leah Neukirchen
2019-04-24 10:53 ` Stephane Chazelas
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From: Leah Neukirchen @ 2019-04-14 13:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: zsh-workers
Dominik Vogt <dominik.vogt@gmx.de> writes:
> Other than writing an alias or a function, is there a simple way
> to call commands that take only one file argument multiple times?
>
> In other words
>
> $ xpdf *.pdf
> $ ps2pdf a.ps b.ps c.ps
>
> should be executed (semantically) as
>
> $ for F in *.pdf; do xpdf "$F"; done
> $ ps2pdf a.ps; ps2pdf b.ps; ps2pdf c.ps
>
> I'm looking for a kind of extension for the command syntax. Of
> course I could write a function with that syntax for each command,
> but is there a more general way where you can define a list of
> commands to treat differently, say
>
> annoying_commands xpdf ps2pdf gv
autoload zargs
zargs -n1 *.pdf -- xpdf
--
Leah Neukirchen <leah@vuxu.org> http://leahneukirchen.org/
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* Re: SImple way to execute command on list of files?
2019-04-14 13:50 ` SImple way to execute command on list of files? Leah Neukirchen
@ 2019-04-24 10:53 ` Stephane Chazelas
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From: Stephane Chazelas @ 2019-04-24 10:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Leah Neukirchen; +Cc: zsh-workers
2019-04-14 15:50:36 +0200, Leah Neukirchen:
[...]
> autoload zargs
> zargs -n1 *.pdf -- xpdf
That's not shorter than
for f (*.pdf) xpdf $f
though.
--
Stephane
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