Hi,
Ken wrote:
> "cp %f /tmp/foo.$$.jpg; (xv /tmp/foo.$$.jpg; rm -f /tmp/foo.$$.jpg) &"
A hard link would seem more suitable? Things take so many bits these
days. They don't work across filesystems, of course.
if t=%f-$$.jpeg && ln %f "$t"; then (xv "$t"; rm "$t") & fi
‘%f’ can't be prefixed because it includes the temporary path.
But appending to it destroys its suffix which needs re-creating with
a hard-cording. %-escapes for the %f's dirname, basename, and an escape
for the mh...-suffix-... entry could be useful.
(I don't over-quote as it makes the reader in me wonder what the writer
was attempting without need, or didn't understand about what they were
doing. Similar to ‘(m * x) + c’ or ‘(x > y) == TRUE’. As each new
language comes along, once I've been bitten enough then I can spot the
lack of needed quoting.)
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Cheers, Ralph.
