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Re: Filtering argument lists (e.g. for grep)
07.12.2015, 15:18, "Nikolay Aleksandrovich Pavlov (ZyX)" <kp-pav@xxxxxxxxx>:
> 07.12.2015, 15:03, "Nikolay Aleksandrovich Pavlov (ZyX)" <kp-pav@xxxxxxxxx>:
>> 07.12.2015, 14:51, "Dominik Vogt" <vogt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>> On Mon, Dec 07, 2015 at 11:23:54AM +0000, Peter Stephenson wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 7 Dec 2015 11:56:22 +0100
>>>> Dominik Vogt <vogt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> > Maybe grep is a bad example because this can be done with the
>>>> > --exclude= option. But could zsh help filtering the names
>>>> > generated by globbing in a more general way so that I could write
>>>> >
>>>> > $ <foo> *
>>>> >
>>>> > and have zsh automagically filter the results of the * (not
>>>> > everywhere; only for commands that have this feature enabled) so
>>>> > that the non-matching names are not passed to the command in the
>>>> > first place?
>>>
>>>> You could use a global alias, e.g.
>>>>
>>>> alias -g '@*'='*~(*\~|\#*|ChangeLog)'
>>>
>>> Yes, but then I'd need an alias for every potential pattern, e.g.
>>> @*.s*, @**/*, @*.c.* etc.
>>>
>>>> Ig you want that first * to be something more flexible you can use a
>>>> glob qualifier.
>>>>
>>>> gi () {
>>>> [[ $REPLY != (*\~|\#*|ChangeLog) ]]
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> and use
>>>>
>>>> <foo> *(+gi)
>>>
>>> That sounds good, but is there a way to make that qualifier a
>>> default for certain commands? As an alternative, is it possible
>>> to access the command name from inside the qualifier function?
>>>
>>> function gi () {
>>> if <command should be filtered>; then
>>> [[ $REPLY != (*\~|\#*|ChangeLog) ]]
>>> fi
>>> }
>>
>> And there is another possibility: considering you want to do this thing with command `foo` you need to do the following:
>>
>> 1. Create an alias `foo='noglob foo'`.
>> 2. Create a function `foo` like this:
>>
>> function foo()
>> {
>> local -a args=( "${@[@]}" )
>> local -a new_args
>> for (( I=2; I<= $#args; I++ )) ; do
>> if [[ $args[I] != ${${args[I]}//[*?]} ]] ; then # If argument contains glob pattern
>> args[I]+="(+gi)"
>> new_args=( $~args[I] )
>> args[I,I]=( $new_args )
>> (( I += #new_args - 1 ))
>> fi
>> done
>> command foo "${args[@]}"
>> }
>>
>> . I.e. in place of leaving zsh to expand globs, expand it in your function “manually”, with necessary additions.
>
> Though this variant is for one command. For multiple you need some adjustments:
>
> 1. `alias foo='noglob filterglob foo'`
> 2. Function is `filterglob`, starts with `local -r cmd="$1"; shift`, ends with `command "$cmd" "${args[@]}"`.
>
> And I should not have used `I=2` (it initially meant to skip command) in any case, replace `I=2` with `I=1`.
I have checked and the following filterglob function works:
filterglob () {
local -r cmd="$1"
shift
local -a args=("${@[@]}")
local -a new_args
for ((I=1; I<=$#args; I++ )) do
if [[ $args[I] != ${${args[I]}/[*?]} ]]
then
args[I]+="~*.png"
new_args=($~args[I])
args[I,I]=("${new_args[@]}")
(( I += #new_args - 1 ))
fi
done
"$cmd" "${args[@]}"
}
. But there is one downside: you need additional code to handle CSH_NULL_GLOB, NULL_GLOB and NOMATCH options. There are the following combinations:
1. nonomatch, nocshnullglob, nonullglob: leave pattern as-is. Requires 1. adding (N) at the end of the pattern 2. reverting args[I] change. (Note: *.c literally is also possible file name, so you can’t just “check if #new_args == 1 and new_args[1] == args[I] and if yes revert”, (N) is needed.)
2. cshnullglob, nonullglob: if there are no matches, leave no arguments, but if all patterns on the command-line have no matches, error out. Requires 1. adding (N) (or it will error out when processing new_args) 2. saving 1 if there were expanded globs.
3. nullglob: should work as-is, including when variant with (N) is used.
4. nomatch: should also work as-is, but when (N) is used requires additionally explicitly errorring out.
The final function works something like this:
filterglob () {
local -r cmd="$1"
shift
local -a args
args=( "${@[@]}" )
local -a new_args
local -i expandedglobs=0
local first_unexpanded_glob=
for ((I=1; I<=$#args; I++ )) do
if [[ $args[I] != ${${args[I]}/[*?]} ]]
then
local initial_arg=${args[I]}
args[I]+="~*.png(N)"
new_args=( $~args[I] )
if (( $#new_args )) ; then
expandedglobs=1
else
if [[ $options[cshnullglob] == off
&& $options[nullglob] == off ]] ; then
if [[ $options[nomatch] == on ]] ; then
: ${~${args[I]%\(N\)}} # Will error out.
else
new_args=( "$initial_arg" )
fi
fi
if [[ -z $first_unexpanded_glob ]] ; then
first_unexpanded_glob=${args[I]%\(N\)}
readonly first_unexpanded_glob
fi
fi
args[I,I]=( "${new_args[@]}" )
(( I += $#new_args - 1 ))
fi
done
if [[ $options[cshnullglob] == on && $options[nullglob] == off ]] ; then
if (( !expandedglob )) ; then
: $~first_unexpanded_glob # Will error out.
fi
fi
"$cmd" "${args[@]}"
}
. Note that this function has no `emulate -L zsh` at the top, so may be broken by some options. Also AFAIK you cannot use this specific function without `setopt extendedglob` and `zmodload zsh/parameter` (for `$options`).
// Do not forget to replace `~*.png` with whatever you need, I used this for testing purposes.
>>> Ciao
>>>
>>> Dominik ^_^ ^_^
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> Dominik Vogt
>>> IBM Germany
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