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From: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: permission denied
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2023 07:42:45 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <171aa87a-f52e-6fc0-d8c1-8ad6be9c9838@eastlink.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1483562526.2152027.1682086378095@mail.virginmedia.com>


On 2023-04-21 07:12, Peter Stephenson wrote:
>
> 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).

No chance!  I'll preserve what neurons I still have and just take your 
word for it.  I can't believe that mortals wrote those ordering rules, 
it's inhuman.  Musta been Gods From Outer Space.

Seriously tho, it's good to remember that by nesting things, one can 
enforce an order of processing.  Thanks Peter.




  reply	other threads:[~2023-04-21 14:43 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
2023-04-21 14:42                             ` Ray Andrews [this message]
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

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