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16.12.2020 20:50:31 ori@eigenstate.org:
> Quoth sirjofri <sirjofri+ml-9front@sirjofri.de>:
>> '-r '^$headers
>
> won't work. rc doesn't re-expand arguments; it more or less
> only splits words when evaluating `{}, so '-r foo' ends up
> as one unit when you do the concatenation: [...]

That's indeed very interesting. I noticed that when playing around with=20
it. I also noticed that it worked when encapsulating the whole thing in=20
another `{}, but then you probably have issues with quoted arguments with=
=20
spaces ('hello: world').

I think what I did was like this, but I don't know if that makes any=20
sense:

h=3D'-r<tab>'^$headers
u=3D`=E2=80=98<tab>'{ifs=3D'<tab>'; echo -n $h}

The whole thing is indeed an interesting challenge, especially because rc=
=20
is handling items and lists so special. Spaces don't necessarily separate=
=20
strings, items with spaces are not always quoted, etc. For example, the=20
visual string "this is a string" is not always a list with 3 strings. It=20
could also be a list with two or only one string.

Btw I really enjoyed your interview I listened to yesterday.

sirjofri

(Sorry ori for double posting this to you. It was meant for the list)