From: Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: Quoting the arguments to a function
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 15:17:29 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1473977849.22417.31.camel@ceramic.home.fifi.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <nrf4he$u13$1@blaine.gmane.org>
On Thu, 2016-09-15 at 14:41 -0700, zv wrote:
> I want to supply the arguments of a function (an alias to Emacs `calc') without expansion, e.g:
>
> zv@computer# calc 20/2*15
> 150
>
>
> Today of course the result gives "zsh: no matches found: 20*15/2"
>
> Is there any way to signal to ZSH that an alias or fn should have arguments supplied literally?
Well, not exactly, you can turn off globbing with:
alias calc='noglob calc'
But that won't work for:
% calc 0xff&0x80
still would be parsed as:
% calc 0xff &
% 0x80
Phil.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-15 22:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-15 21:41 zv
2016-09-15 22:17 ` Philippe Troin [this message]
2016-09-16 0:09 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2016-09-16 0:10 ` zv
2016-09-16 0:12 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2016-09-16 10:52 ` Vincent Lefevre
2016-09-16 17:09 ` Bart Schaefer
[not found] ` <160916100934.ZM11263__9881.101063411$1474045859$gmane$org@torch.brasslantern.com>
2016-09-17 6:24 ` Daniel Shahaf
2016-09-17 14:35 ` Bart Schaefer
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