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 19:01:28 Europe/Paris

On Sat, Jul 24, 2021 at 06:57:34PM +0200, dora-solomon@brusseler.com wrote:
> Yes, it is for an rsync functionality.  I would like to gather the suffixes 
> together as I 
> 
> will do some other checks in addition to rsync and some status logs.

> Showing us an example of the rsync command you want to create would be
> ideal.

> In the absence of that, I'll just guess that you want to receive a list
> of suffixes, such as:

> .c
> .h
> ,v

> And generate a command like this:

> rsync --accept="*.c" --accept="*.h" --accept="*,v"





Yes, you are quite right.  Or 



call_rsync -i{.c,.f} -- more here for rsync

There is the problem of how to pass ,v and other non-period suffixes. 


> Here's how I would do it:


#!/bin/bash

args=()
for arg; do
args+=(--accept="*$arg")
done

args+=( other rsync arguments here )

rsync "${args[@]}"