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From: Marc Chantreux <marc.chantreux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Dominik Vogt <dominik.vogt@xxxxxx>
Subject: Re: searching upwards from cwd
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 11:13:28 +0200
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Hi Dominik,

le 19/06/2006,
Dominik Vogt nous écrivait :
> 
> I'd like to be able to open addresses.txt in a single command without knowing
> about the working directory.  At the moment, the command depends on cwd:
> 
>   work/  =>  less addresses.txt
>   work/cvs/  =>  less ../addresses.txt
>   work/cvs/projectx/  =>  less ../../addresses.txt
>   work/cvs/projectx/src/  =>  less ../../../addresses.txt

is this enought ? 

from () {
        local base=${PWD%/$1/*}/$1
        shift
        print -l $base/${~^*}
}

less $( from works '**/adresses.txt' )

regards

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