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Re: assigning parameters and globbing
- X-seq: zsh-users 10135
- From: Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>
- To: zsh-users@xxxxxxxxxx (Zsh users list)
- Subject: Re: assigning parameters and globbing
- Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2006 10:24:16 +0100
Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> What do you suggest to set an environment BLAH to *([-1]) or something
> similar (globbing that leads to a single filename -- which may contain
> special characters)?
You can, if you like, use glob_assign:
setopt GLOB_ASSIGN
export BLAH
BLAH=*([-1])
but I'd probably use an intermediate array.
local -a files
files=(*)
export BLAH=${files[-1]}
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