Colon separated list to regex or newline scripts

termscripts/colon2newline.sh

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+#!/bin/sh
+
+usage() {
+    echo "$0 [-r] <Colon separated list>" 1>&2
+    echo "[-r]  Adds /.* at the end of each entry as if they were folders" 1>&2
+    exit 1
+}
+
+# To get options provided to the command
+while getopts ":r" option; do
+    case "${option}" in
+        r)
+            recursive="1"
+            ;;
+        * | h)
+            usage
+            ;;
+    esac
+done
+shift $((OPTIND-1))
+
+[ -z "$1" ] && exit 1
+
+if [ "$recursive" = "1" ]; then
+    echo "$1/.*" | sed 's/:/\/.*\n/g'
+else
+    echo "$1" | tr ':' '\n'
+fi

termscripts/colon2regex.sh

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+#!/bin/sh
+
+usage() {
+    echo "$0 [-r] <Colon separated list>" 1>&2
+    echo "[-r]  Adds /.* at the end of each entry as if they were folders" 1>&2
+    exit 1
+}
+
+# To get options provided to the command
+while getopts ":r" option; do
+    case "${option}" in
+        r)
+            recursive="1"
+            ;;
+        * | h)
+            usage
+            ;;
+    esac
+done
+shift $((OPTIND-1))
+
+[ -z "$1" ] && exit 1
+
+if [ "$recursive" = "1" ]; then
+    echo "\($1/.*\)" | sed 's/:/\/.*\\|/g'
+else
+    echo "\($1\)" | sed 's/:/\\|/g'
+fi