On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 10:52 PM, Chris Suter <[email protected]> wrote:
> the swap file for "somedir/foo.c" is "somedir/.foo.c.swp" -- not
> "somedir/foo.c.swp" so i had to catch the "." after the path to exclude it.
> there is probably a much better way of doing this, especially since i turn
> around and pipe into a while. setting some auxillary variable in the loop
> like j=`dirname $i`"/"`${i:1:${#i}-4} would be simpler and would keep access
> to the original swp file name around so i wouldn't have to reconstruct it in
> the rm at the end of the loop.
>
> sed expressions are definitely not the prettiest, but god i love 'em :)
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 10:46 PM, bill lam <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Tue, 06 Oct 2009, Chris Suter wrote:
>> > sed 's/\(.*\/\)\.\([^.]\+\(\.[^.]\+\)\?\)\.swp/\1\2/' | \
>>
>> Just curious, why not
>> sed 's/\(.*\)\.swp$/\1/' | \
>>
>> --
>> regards,
>> ====================================================
>> GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 2008-08-24
>> gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 4434BAB3
>>
>> >>
>>
>
>
> --
> Christopher Suter
>
oy...sorry for top-post...gmail...
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