Required argument `--pattern` not found even when given

[Kushagra-0801]

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I wanted to used erd as an ls replacement. Since ls allows globbing without flags, I thought to make an alias for erd with the -p already present.

I made it like this:

In config file:

[ls]
human = true
disk-usage = "logical"
long = true
level = 1
suppress-size = true
layout = "inverted"

[lsf]
human = true
disk-usage = "logical"
long = true
level = 1
suppress-size = true
layout = "inverted"
glob = true

and then the aliases:

alias ls='erd --config ls'
alias lsf='erd --config lsf --pattern'

And I tried to use it like

lsf '*'

I get the following error:

error: the following required arguments were not provided:
  --pattern <PATTERN>

Usage: -- --pattern <PATTERN> --suppress-size --glob --human --level <NUM> --disk-usage <DISK_USAGE> --long --layout <LAYOUT> [DIR]

For more information, try '--help'.

If I run

lsf --pattern '*'

I get the following error:

error: a value is required for '--pattern <PATTERN>' but none was supplied

For more information, try '--help'.

But if I run

ls --glob --pattern '*'

then it works.

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Beyond this main issue, I have some other minor requests / questions as well.

1. How can I have globbing work for both files and directories at the same time?
2. Is there some way I can pass the pattern without quoting it? Basically, letting the shell do the globbing and have erd work like ls with arguments given.

[solidiquis]

That is a bug. I'll work on getting that fixed ASAP. As for your questions:

1. Globbing for different file-types in one query isn't supported, but I'll work on getting that supported for the next release.
2. Could you provide an example for this use-case? I don't see how this would work given that erd expects only a single positional argument which is the directory to traverse, but perhaps it'll make sense once I see what you're trying to accomplish.

[Kushagra-0801]

Could you provide an example for this use-case? I don't see how this would work given that erd expects only a single positional argument which is the directory to traverse, but perhaps it'll make sense once I see what you're trying to accomplish.

With log files or static assets or in just a lot of cases, it happen that I have a couple hundred files in a directory. With ls I would do ls *-2023-08-* to list out all log files in august. I can do this with erd as well but it requires quoting. erd --glob --pattern '*-2023-08-*'. Even without the globs, sometimes I want to check whether a file just exists or not so running ls with the filename is what I do. Doing the same with erd fails with either can't compute root node or too many arguments.

It's not a huge problem to be honest, but old habits die hard.

[solidiquis]

ahhh okay that makes sense. Ignore what I said earlier about it not being possible, I didn't correctly envision what you were asking for. It should definitely be possible. I'll add that into my list of todos to include in the next release.