Re: Get the result of the last glob

[Aryn Starr <whereislelouch@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks. I needed this to be non-interactive, and I indeed created a function for it, I was just wondering if it was possible to get the glob in a magic variable or sth, which it seems it is not.

> On Aug 21, 2019, at 7:01 PM, Daniel Shahaf <d.s@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Aryn Starr wrote on Wed, 21 Aug 2019 13:22 +00:00:
>> ebook-convert * *.epub
> 
> Assuming emacs keybindings, you can do:
> 
> ebook-convert *<TAB>{,.epub}
> 
> (where <TAB> will expand the glob)
> 
> or
> 
> ebook-convert * *<Ctrl+X>*.epub
> 
> (where "<Ctrl+X>*" is the default binding for the expand-word widget, which will expand the glob)
> 
> or even
> 
> () { for 1; do ebook-convert $1 $1.epub; done } *
> 
> which, unlike the previous examples, works for any number of files.  (It's an anonymous function with arguments.)
> 
>> Which I want expanded to:
>> 
>> ebook-convert somebook.mobi somebook.mobi.epub
>>