From af2f2032f17ca244998b70f36ddf4f36a3159f54 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: bth <git@bth.moi>
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2026 21:38:18 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] next, last : glob and regexp

---
 next/last.go | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 next/next.go | 44 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 73 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/next/last.go b/next/last.go
index 70537dc..ecafc99 100644
--- a/next/last.go
+++ b/next/last.go
@@ -1,14 +1,39 @@
 package next
 
 import (
+	"errors"
 	"fmt"
 	"os/exec"
+	"regexp"
+	"strings"
 )
 
-func Last() {
-	ls, err := exec.Command("ls").Output()
+const (
+	LS_CMD       = `ls -r [0-9]*.md`
+	LS_GREP_PIPE = `ls -r | grep -E '^[[:digit:]].*\.md'`
+	FILE_REGEXP  = `(?m)^([0-9]+)\.([[:alpha:]]*)\.*md$`
+)
+
+var fileRegexp *regexp.Regexp = regexp.MustCompile(FILE_REGEXP)
+
+func last() (string, error) {
+	// NOTE: globbing requires invoking the shell as cmd:
+	cmd := exec.Command("sh", "-c", LS_CMD)
+	ls, err := cmd.Output()
 	if err != nil {
-		fmt.Print(err)
+		return "", err
 	}
-	fmt.Printf("ls\n%s\n", string(ls))
+	lines := strings.Split(string(ls), "\n")
+	if len(lines) == 0 {
+		return "", errors.New("no um files in current dir")
+	}
+	return lines[0], nil
+}
+
+func Last() {
+	s, err := last()
+	if err != nil {
+		fmt.Printf("err: %v\n", err)
+	}
+	fmt.Println(s)
 }
diff --git a/next/next.go b/next/next.go
index fbfa19a..84241ba 100644
--- a/next/next.go
+++ b/next/next.go
@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
 package next
 
 import (
+	"errors"
 	"fmt"
+	"strconv"
 
 	"github.com/brtholomy/um/go/flags"
 )
@@ -38,7 +40,49 @@ func parseArgs(args []string) options {
 	return opts
 }
 
+func parseFile(last string) (string, string, error) {
+	res := fileRegexp.FindStringSubmatch(last)
+	num := ""
+	desc := ""
+	if len(res) < 2 {
+		return num, desc, errors.New("no um files in current dir")
+	}
+	num = res[1]
+	if len(res) > 2 {
+		desc = res[2]
+	}
+	return num, desc, nil
+}
+
+func next(last string) (string, error) {
+	num, desc, err := parseFile(last)
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+	i, err := strconv.Atoi(num)
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+	if desc != "" {
+		desc = desc + "."
+	}
+	width := len(num)
+	fmtstr := fmt.Sprintf("%%0%dd.%%smd", width)
+	n := fmt.Sprintf(fmtstr, i+1, desc)
+	return n, nil
+}
+
 func Next(args []string) {
 	opts := parseArgs(args)
 	fmt.Println(opts)
+
+	l, err := last()
+	if err != nil {
+		fmt.Printf("err: %v\n", err)
+	}
+	n, err := next(l)
+	if err != nil {
+		fmt.Printf("err: %v\n", err)
+	}
+	fmt.Println(n)
 }