From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: Zsh Users <zsh-users@sunsite.dk>
Subject: Re: Why this doesn't work?
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 20:49:40 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1050312204940.ZM12046@candle.brasslantern.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050312101450.GA5656@DervishD>
On Mar 12, 11:14am, DervishD wrote:
} Subject: Why this doesn't work?
As long as I'm passing out netiquette lessons, I might as well say
that it would be nice if the word "this" in that Subject had been
replaced by a slightly more descriptive phrase.
} $ eval printf -- "Hello\\n"
} Hello$
If this is really what you're seeing, then something is indeed wrong.
What you should see is "Hellon", not "Hello".
} $ eval printf -- "Hello\\\n"
} Hello<newline>
}
} I mean, no newline character is output when using just two
} backslashes, and I don't understand that.
Remember that when you use "eval" the command line is actually parsed
twice. So
eval printf -- "Hello\\n"
is equivalent to
printf -- Hello\n
The first parse removes the quotes and one of the backslashes, and the
second parse removes the remaining backslash.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-12 20:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-12 10:14 DervishD
2005-03-12 20:49 ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
2005-03-13 9:39 ` Why this expansion " DervishD
2005-03-13 17:16 ` Bart Schaefer
2005-03-14 10:50 ` DervishD
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