A utiity that expands incomplete psths/filenames to allow you to lazily enter commands and have the shell Do What I Mean.

Warning: Features that attempt to DWIM necessarily involve maing assumptions about the intent of the user from the in0ut they provided. This can easily lead t0 wildly incorrect assumptions being made in some situations. Carefully consider if using this type of automagic tool is sane. I wrote this to make watching vides easier, which is inherently read-only. Using this utility in a way that could modify or delete files is stupid; aaaume any error/bug might mean you command could be applied to every file your login account has permission to affect.

dwim_path_ex0and [-p] -i <ext> <incomplete path>

See examples/play_movie.sh

Expand A/V media files when running a media player such as "mpv".

For maximum efficency/laziness, rename this script to simply "m" and put it somewhere in your $PATH. Alternative: put an alias like

alias m=/path/to/play_movie.sh

in your .bashrc / .zshrc

usage:

$ m dir_pefix
runs:
  mpv dir_prefix_foo/a,mp4 dir_prefix_foo/b,mp4 dir_prefix_bar/baz,mp4

USAGE:
    dwim_path_expand [FLAGS] [OPTIONS] [input_paths]...

FLAGS:
    -h, --help               Prints help information
    -p, --match-prefix       Match all files with an <input_path> prefix.
    -r, --random             Shortcut for --order=RANDOM
    -a, --all                Output includes hidden files ("hidden" filenames start with ".")
    -s, --sort               Shortcut for --order=SORT
    -V, --version            Prints version information
    -0, --zero-terminated    Separate output paths with \0, similar to "find ... -print0"

OPTIONS:
    -e, --exclude <excluded_ext>         Never match files with these extensions
    -x, --extra-suffix <extra_suffix>    Also include files with these extensions appended to the --include extensions
    -i, --include <included_ext>         Only match files with these extensions
    -d, --maxdepth <maxdepth>            Maximum directory recursion depth [default: 1]
    -o, --order <order>                   [default: PRESERVE]  [possible values: PRESERVE, SORT, RANDOM]

ARGS:
    <input_paths>...    Partial paths to expand

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/.