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Expansion with numbers in human readable format

So, I want to play some MP3s in a console player that takes file names as inputs. I have the following files, as given by ls -1 * where * get expanded by my shell (zsh): 1 - Main title.mp3 10 - End ...
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Excluding a directory name in a zsh recursive glob

I'm running zsh on Linux under setopt extended_glob ksh_glob glob_dots. I'm looking for something easy to type on the command line, with no portability requirements. I'm looking at a source code tree, ...
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How to get “current glob” in zsh

I want to do something like: $ convert [a,b,c,d,e].png -resize 50% <current_match>_half.png How can I do this? Is there some variable that stores the current match? I couldn't find anything in ...
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Using OR patterns in shell wildcards

Contents of my dir are $ ls -lrt total 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 user1 admin 19 Oct 8 12:31 night.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 user1 admin 19 Oct 8 12:31 noon.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 user1 admin 38 Oct 8 12:31 day.txt I ...
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Fastest way to open all files in a directory with multiple file extensions on commandline

If I want to open all mp4 files in a directory, I can simply do something like totem *.mp4. But how can I open all mp4 and all flv files in that directory with one command. I.e. I want to do something ...
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Can I make `rm` interactive only when using globbing? (in either bash or zsh or both)

Whenever I rm multiple items at once with shell globbing and there's even the slightest possibility that the pattern expands to more than I expect it to, I always try to remember to add -i, but (of ...
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1answer
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List all the matched files starting from an index

In zsh, there is the [m,n] glob qualifier which works as follows: [beg[,end]] specifies which of the matched filenames should be included in the returned list. The syntax is the same as for ...
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zsh: excluding files from a pattern

Say I have the following files: |-- bar `-- foo |-- type_A_1 |-- type_A_2 |-- type_B_1 |-- type_B_2 |-- type_B_xx |-- type_B_xx `-- something_else I thought the ...
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How do I filter a glob in zsh

Basically I can use a glob in zsh to a list. Often, it turns out, I would like to filter that list, grep'ishly I'm wondering though, if I need to do that. Does zsh have a method to filter a list? ...
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How do I reverse a for loop?

How do I properly do a for loop in reverse order? for f in /var/logs/foo*.log; do bar "$f" done I need a solution that doesn't break for funky characters in the file names.
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ZSH: Recursive globbing with .directories

I thought the glob pattern: **/(*|.*) would represent every folder and file starting with dot (.) or not, but it skips directories in the current directory that start with .. What is the glob ...
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Generate a list of files from a file containing a series of globbing patterns

I am looking for a way to build a list of files by parsing a file that contains a sequence of zsh globbing patterns. The final goal is to pass this list of files to hg add in mercurial. For those ...
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Multidigit ranges of files in lexicographical order in zsh

I would like to specify a range of files (in lexicographical order) with two integers (e.g. 2 to 57) in zsh by globbing. For example: "pick the files 2 to 57 in lexicographical order under the path ...
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ZSH: Globbing the first N files under a path in lexicographic order

I was wondering if there is a way to specify the first N files under a given a directory in zsh. I am interested in solutions for recursive enumeration (i.e. any file recursively below a path is ...
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Can I have my shell history record how wildcards expanded?

If I run: $ ls * foo bar buzz $ history | tail -1 ls * You can see that in my shell history it remembers that I ran ls * rather than ls foo bar buzz. Ideally, I'd like to record both in separate ...
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scp, globbing, and different shells

The other day at work I tried doing scp remotehost:~/*.txt . and I received an error about the *, *.txt file not found sorry, not at work and I forget the exact error on my workstation I run zsh ...