Re: Filtering an array of file names

[Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sep 29,  8:43am, Jesper Nygards wrote:
} 
} Suppose I have an array of file names, generated from some external
} program. Is there an zsh-idiomatic way of filtering this array to only
} keep directories?

Are these local file names that you can compare to the filesystem?  If
so, you can use rc-expand-param and globbing qualifiers:

  directories=( ${^allfiles}(/) )

(This didn't work on some old versions of the shell, where qualifiers
were interpreted only if the preceding word had a globbing character.)

If they don't refer to the local filesystem, you'll need the array to
have already marked them somehow, such as with a trailing slash, and
then ${(M)files:#*/} would work.