What we did at UBZ

[John A Meinel]

Martin Pool wrote:
> On 18 Nov 2005, Michael Ellerman <michael at ellerman.id.au> wrote:
>> On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 19:34, Matthieu Moy wrote:
>>> John A Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com> writes:
>>>> $archive/
>>>>   .storage/
>>> I hate hidden files. They're not matched by * in my shell, so some
>>> commands like "rm foo/bar/*" or "mv foo/bar/* other/dir/",
>>> "du -sh *" ... fail.
>> I realise we've decided that .bzr should become _,+=HERE_BE_DRAGONS=+,_, but I 
>> thought I'd just mention another reason why I like . files.
>>
>> They're not matched by * in my shell.
> 
> Under zsh with 'setopt extended_glob' you can say 
> 
>   du -sh *(D)
> 
> the (D) turns on GLOB_DOTS, meaning that . at the start of a filename is
> not treated specially for globbing.  zsh is highly worth learning.
> 

Since you are mentioning zsh, I thought I might mention a different
shell, ipython.
http://ipython.scipy.org/

Basically it is an advanced interactive python interpreter. It isn't
designed to be a shell killer as such. Though it does mean you are
working in a fancy python shell. So you have access to a real language,
rather than shell.

Probably it would work more in conjunction with zsh, rather than as a
replacement. But whenever I want to do anything more advanced than just
basic interaction, I really would prefer writing in python, rather than
trying to figure out how to do it in shell.

For example, I want to rename all of the files that start with test_ or
test to remove the prefix, and I want to spawn "bzr mv" for each one,
not just "rename". I know there is some sort of pattern match operator
in bash (and I'm sure zsh) which involves {}, and ## or %% or //, or
whatever depending on what you want to match.
Or I can do it in ipython with:
alias bzr bzr %l
for f in os.listdir('.'):
    if not (f.startswith('test') and f.endswith('.py')):
        continue
    if f.startswith('test_'):
        g = f[5:]
    else:
        g = f[4:]
    bzr mv f g

Now, it might be just as easy to do some sort of "for f in test*.py; do
bzr mv $f ${something}f; done"
But I always have to look up the ${something}, and it is easier for me
to just switch into python. Not necessarily shorter, but takes less
thought process for me (and less doc searching).

John
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