Re: extra arguments inserted by glob thinger e:: get sorted afterwards

[Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>]

Mikael Magnusson wrote:
> Hi, someone just asked on irc how to give a globbed list of files to a
> program with a -f inserted before each argument, so I told him
> *(e:'reply=(-f $REPLY)':), that doesn't work however, as the arguments
> are resorted afterwards, which seems like the less useful way to do
> it.

It's the *only* way to do it.  The arguments are all assumed to be
files, which is after all the point of globbing.  Either you get them
sorted as files or you don't get them sorted.

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