Passing list of filename suffixes to script.

[dora-solomon]

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

On Sat, Jul 24, 2021 at 07:11:58PM +0200, dora-solomon@brusseler.com wrote:
> call_rsync -i{.c,.f} -- more here for rsync
> 
> There is the problem of how to pass ,v and other non-period suffixes. 

> 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?



I am trying to decide on a good system to pass filename suffixes.  Allow to 
pass anything 

rather than restrict things to some suffix types only. 



Perhaps the following and could also rewove the braces.



-e{",v",.othersuffix}



Wanted to check with you on what ideas to trash and a good way to do it.



> That would have been good to know.

> It sounds like the new problem specification is:

> "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."



That's it.  I babbled too much.



> Simply stop using the brace expansion syntax within your script. Write
> the arguments out explicitly instead.

> call_rsync -i.c -i.f -i,v