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A minor syntax question
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- From: Jesper Nygårds <jesper.nygards@xxxxxxxxx>
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- Subject: A minor syntax question
- Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2016 08:58:59 +0200
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I am writing a function that's basically a wrapper to an invocation of
'find'. I have the need to transform some arguments to my function into an
expression I pass on to 'find'. Here's a simplified example of what I want
to do:
xff() {
zparseopts -D -E t+:=types || return 1
typearg="("${"$(print -- '-o -type '${^types:#-t})"#-o }")"
print $typearg
}
What I want to do is to construct a nested expression for the variable
number of file types that can be given. They should be contained within
parenthesis, and joined by "-o". So, for example:
xff -t f -> "(-type f)"
xff -t f -t d -> "(-type f -o -type d)"
As you can see, my function strips away the '-t' elements, then expands the
parameter list with '-o -type ' before each element, and finally strips
away the leading '-o'. It works as intended, but I feel it is more
complicated than required. In particular, I couldn't find a way to make the
'${^...}' parameter expansion trigger without the embedded print statement.
At the same time, I'm rather happy with having found a one-liner expressing
what I want.
So my question is: is there a more elegant way of solving this which is
still compact?
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