From: Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: permission denied
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2023 15:12:58 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1483562526.2152027.1682086378095@mail.virginmedia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <651b32eb-7cec-8667-27b1-e0efe56deb57@eastlink.ca>
> On 21/04/2023 14:33 Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca> wrote:
> BTW, this hardly matters in practice but:
>
> 4 /aWorking/Zsh/Source/Wk 0 % print -rl "Hello World"
> Hello World
>
> 4 /aWorking/Zsh/Source/Wk 0 % $chain1
> "Hello World"
>
> ... can the quotes be omitted from the output? I tried: " chain0=(
> ${(Qz)1} ) " but then it broke into two words again. Not important but
> if it can be done I'll take it.
Yes, you can do ${(Q)${(z)1}} which does the splitting, then removes the
quotes (without any more splitting). The nested expansions are needed
because otherwise the (Q) happens before the (z) (search the zshexpn
manual page for "brain damage" for the ordering rules).
pws
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-04-21 14:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-04-17 18:34 Ray Andrews
2023-04-17 19:07 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2023-04-17 20:41 ` Ray Andrews
2023-04-17 21:52 ` Bart Schaefer
2023-04-17 22:44 ` Ray Andrews
2023-04-18 2:41 ` Bart Schaefer
2023-04-18 3:35 ` Ray Andrews
2023-04-20 21:35 ` Ray Andrews
2023-04-20 21:47 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2023-04-20 22:09 ` Ray Andrews
2023-04-20 22:13 ` Bart Schaefer
2023-04-20 22:47 ` Ray Andrews
2023-04-21 3:12 ` Bart Schaefer
2023-04-21 13:33 ` Ray Andrews
2023-04-21 14:12 ` Peter Stephenson [this message]
2023-04-21 14:42 ` Ray Andrews
2023-04-21 21:58 ` Bart Schaefer
2023-04-22 0:56 ` Ray Andrews
2023-04-20 22:17 ` Roman Perepelitsa
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2020-12-21 23:01 Ray Andrews
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=1483562526.2152027.1682086378095@mail.virginmedia.com \
--to=p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com \
--cc=zsh-users@zsh.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox
https://git.vuxu.org/mirror/zsh/
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).