Re: Passing list of filename suffixes to script.

[Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev]

well at minimum ill try a filename printing of include with exclude

On Sat, Jul 24, 2021 at 7:44 PM <dora-solomon@brusseler.com> wrote:
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> From: Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org>
> To: help-bash@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Passing list of filename suffixes to script.
> Date: 24/07/2021 19:23:41 Europe/Paris
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> On Sat, Jul 24, 2021 at 07:11:58PM +0200, dora-solomon@brusseler.com wrote:
> > call_rsync -i{.c,.f} -- more here for rsync
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> > There is the problem of how to pass ,v and other non-period suffixes.
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> > Oh, so the original problem specification was all wrong? You're NOT
> > actually passing a list of suffixes to a script, and then trying to
> > generate a command dynamically from the positional parameters within
> > the script?
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> I am trying to decide on a good system to pass filename suffixes.  Allow to 
> pass anything
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> rather than restrict things to some suffix types only.
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> Perhaps the following and could also rewove the braces.
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> -e{",v",.othersuffix}
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> Wanted to check with you on what ideas to trash and a good way to do it.
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> > That would have been good to know.
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> > It sounds like the new problem specification is:
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> > "I have a known list of suffixes that I want to pass to rsync, and I
> > have been using the bash brace expansion syntax to do it, but it
> > doesn't work when my suffixes contain literal commas."
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> That's it.  I babbled too much.
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> > Simply stop using the brace expansion syntax within your script. Write
> > the arguments out explicitly instead.
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> > call_rsync -i.c -i.f -i,v
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