Re: Passing list of filename suffixes to script.

[Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev]

but yea the way to pass complex args

one is separated by --

so
script <find paths> -- <prefix> -- <mid> -- <stuffix> -- other args

On Sat, Jul 24, 2021 at 7:45 PM Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev <fxmbsw7@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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:
> >
> > 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
> >
> >
> >