mugiseyebrows / bash-range

Bash range expression evaluator for your cli application

bashrange

Bash range expression evaluator for your cli application

Install

pip install bashrange

Use

Import and call expand_args

import argparse
from bashrange import expand_args
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(prog="copy.py")
parser.add_argument("src", nargs='+')
parser.add_argument("dst")
args = parser.parse_args(expand_args())

And you can use bash range and list expressions outiside bash shell, for example in cmd on windows

python copy.py image{1..10}.jpg folder
python copy.py file.txt{,.bak}

You can test expression expansion in cmd like this

python -m bashrange -v {1..10..2}

Author

Stanislav Doronin [e-mail]

License

bashrange is distributed under the terms of MIT license, check LICENSE file.