Re: xargs with zsh function

[Ray Andrews <rayandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2021-01-19 1:39 p.m., Bart Schaefer wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 12:27 PM Ray Andrews <rayandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > My strong preference would be that zargs be agnostic as to one's
> > environment and functions called by it would behave exactly as
> > otherwise.
> That's what the zargs_patch.txt in my other message is supposed to do.
>
> > I'd like to be able to link my functions together
> > via piping+zargs.
> Pipelines are for linking together things that expect to read standard
> input and write standard output.
>
> foo | bar
>
> is the same as
>
> foo > file
> bar < file
>
> except that the file is being simultaneously written and read
The above is much easier to understand and of course obviously simpler.  
As I said,
the whole thing is a bit of a mystery.  A lot of stuff attaches to ' | ' 
obviously.

> If you rejigger them into a pipeline, you
> force some of them into background subshells, and those are no longer
> able to affect the current shell.  That may or may not be OK, but you
> should think about it.
Well again I have no idea what the intimacies of it are but at least the 
notion of being able to
link functions analogously to what xargs does is desirable.  If you have 
a patch that does that for
zargs I'd sure like to have it.