Improved tmpdir functions

[etc/zsh.git] / .zsh / util

diff --git a/.zsh/util b/.zsh/util
index ed37cb49e9a107bd169f3c2f95c479c8c1f61c41..9b865362716ae16afd785e56e8ef91bc55bbbbc4 100644 (file)
--- a/.zsh/util
+++ b/.zsh/util
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ array_prepend() {
   local arrayname="$1"; shift
   local i
   for i; do
   local arrayname="$1"; shift
   local i
   for i; do

-    eval "typeset -ga $arrayname=(\$i \${$arrayname[@]/\$i})"
+    eval "typeset -ga $arrayname; $arrayname=(\$i \${$arrayname[@]/\$i})"

   done
 }
 
   done
 }
 


@@ -24,10 +24,30 @@ array_append() {
   local arrayname="$1"; shift
   local i
   for i; do
   local arrayname="$1"; shift
   local i
   for i; do

-    eval "typeset -ga $arrayname=(\${$arrayname[@]/\$i} \$i)"
+    eval "typeset -ga $arrayname; $arrayname=(\${$arrayname[@]/\$i} \$i)"

   done
 }
 
 function trace() { ( eval "set -x; $@"; ) }
 
   done
 }
 
 function trace() { ( eval "set -x; $@"; ) }
 

+function run_at_most_every() {
+  local timespec=
+  case "$1" in
+    ((#b)([0-9]##)([smhd])) timespec="${match[2]}-${match[1]}";;
+    (*)
+      zerror "missing timespec: $@"
+      return
+  esac
+  shift
+
+  local sentinel_dir="${XDG_RUNTIME_DIR:-${TMPDIR:-/tmp}}/run_at_most_once_per"
+  mkdir --parent "${sentinel_dir}"
+  local sentinel="${sentinel_dir}/${*//[^[:alnum:]]##/_}_${timespec}"
+  if test -z ${sentinel}(#qNm${timespec}); then
+    touch "${sentinel}"
+    $@
+    return $?
+  fi
+}
+

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