Re: globbing and quoting in a function

Re: globbing and quoting in a function

[Stefan Reichör]

Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com> writes:

> On Jul 19,  8:29am, Wayne Davison wrote:
> } Subject: Re: globbing and quoting in a function
> }
> }     alias lsnew='noglob lsnew'
> } 
> } (I vaguely recall that having an alias call a function of the same
> } name might cause a problem in some older zsh versions, but it works
> } fine in 4.2.5.)
>
> The "problem" is still there.  See the last few paragraphs of FAQ
> question 2.3.

So my question is still open:

Consider the following command:
ls -tr -dl *(om[1,30])

Now I would like to create an alias/or a function/or whatever to make
the * variable.

I'd like to call:
lsnew *
lsnew a*


Is there an easy way to do it in zsh?

The only idea that I have at the moment is to create a script on the
fly and execute it.

Other ideas?



Stefan.

Re: globbing and quoting in a function

[Stefan Reichör]

Doug Kearns <dougkearns@gmail.com> writes:

> On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 04:27:32PM +0200, Stefan Reichör wrote:
>> Hi!
>> 
>> I use the following alias to show the last 30 files changed:
>> 
>> alias lsnew='ls -tr -dl *(om[1,30])'
>> 
>> 
>> Now I want to convert it to a function to specify the '*' as
>> parameter:
>> 
>> I tried the following, but the $1 is not combined with the glob
>> modifier.
>> 
>> function lsnew () {
>>     ls -tr -dl $1(om[1,30])
>
>       ls -tr -dl $~1(om[1,30])
>
>> }
>> 
>> 
>> So is there a way to make 'lsnew a*' work?
>
> You'll need to quote the * as well. For example,
>
> lsnew a\*

That does not work as expected:
lsnew:1: no matches found: a*(om[1,30])

I would like to see all files, starting with a.
The quoted \* seems to match the *.


Stefan.