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Globbing in a function (was Re: globbing for links in pathnames)
- X-seq: zsh-users 2108
- From: Sweth Chandramouli <sweth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: zsh-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Subject: Globbing in a function (was Re: globbing for links in pathnames)
- Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 18:48:53 -0500
On Thu, Feb 04, 1999 at 09:07:55PM -0800, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> On Feb 4, 11:22pm, Sweth Chandramouli wrote:
> } so it should end up something like the following:
> }
> } x=(pkgs/*(@)) ; ls -d ${^x}/man(/)
>
> The reason I used the eval was to avoid having x remain set after the
> command completes. `x=(*(@)) eval ...` will unset x again at the end
> of the eval, and won't destroy any existing value of x.
i have a function that i use to link executables from where i
normally install them to (usually /opt/wherever) to /usr/local/bin.
i was trying to rewrite it using this sort of format (rather than
invoking find, as i was doing before), but am running afoul of something
that i can't quite figure out. the i've hacked out some stuff at the
beginning (to allow me to pass it options) for the sake of clarity; the
interesting part is this:
(astaroth)~/.zfunc: BINLIST=(*(*)) ; echo $BINLIST ; unset BINLIST
binlink cwhois gpid mck newm newterm nobrs perf xbuffy xt xtitle
(astaroth)~/.zfunc: which binlink
binlink () {
BINLIST=($1(*)) eval 'for BIN in ${=BINLIST} ; do
ln -s ${BIN} /usr/local/bin ;
done'
}
(astaroth)~/.zfunc: binlink \*
zsh: no matches found: *(*)
putting an echo in at the end confirms that BINLIST in
the function is, when binlink is given an escaped asterisk as
its argument, being set to (*(*)); since parameter expansion
occurs before filename generation, why doesn't setting BINLIST
to that value in the function do the same thing that it does
from the command line?
-- sweth.
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Sweth Chandramouli
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