From: Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>
To: zsh-users@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: Word splitting in parameter expansion
Date: Fri, 02 May 2003 16:56:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <10178.1051890992@csr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: "=?iso-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_Lindstr=F6m?="'s message of "Fri, 02 May 2003 17:45:56 +0200." <20030502154556.GA29562@lucien.dreaming>
=?iso-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_Lindstr=F6m?= wrote:
> I've got this in my .zshrc:
>
> man() {
> screen -h 0 -t "man $@" man $@
> }
>
> This works fine as long as I only supply the function with one argument,
> such as "man access", but when I do "man 5 access", it interprets
> "5 access" as one argument (even though that is not what I meant ;-).
I don't think it's doing quite what you say (although you don't see what
options you have set), but I agree it won't do what you expect...
If the arguments are `5' and `access' I would expect the words to be
divided as:
screen
-h
0
-t
man 5
access
man
5
access
(which is certainly what I get with my option settings). The problem is
that the argument to -t is being divided into two parts. To prevent that
you need:
man() {
screen -h 0 -t "man $*" man $@
}
Actually, that last argument could be $* as well; if you want to
maintain zero-length arguments it needs to be "$@".
--
Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com> Software Engineer
CSR Ltd., Science Park, Milton Road,
Cambridge, CB4 0WH, UK Tel: +44 (0)1223 692070
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-02 15:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-02 15:45 Björn Lindström
2003-05-02 15:56 ` Peter Stephenson [this message]
2003-05-02 16:08 ` Lloyd Zusman
2003-05-02 16:14 ` Peter Stephenson
2003-05-02 16:25 ` Lloyd Zusman
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