From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat+Lists/Zsh/users@luomat.peak.org>
To: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: (mime attachment!) debug function: first time weird behavior
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 98 20:10:25 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199802280110.UAA03404@luomat.peak.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <980227135245.ZM22520@candle.brasslantern.com>
Author: "Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
Original-Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 13:52:45 -0800
Message-ID: <980227135245.ZM22520@candle.brasslantern.com>
> DIR=/usr/local/lib/whois
> FILE=$DIR/$LOOKFOR
> LOOKFOR=`echo $* | awk '{print $NF}'`
>
> Have you considered that perhaps you should assign a value to LOOKFORE
> -before- you use it to assign to another variable?
*beats self upside the head*
All I can claim as an excuse is that I've been up until about 6 or 7 all
week working on a report
> Also, you could use
>
> LOOKFOR=$*[$#]
>
> instead of that horrible awk.
Oh! Nifty! Will do....
I still use /bin/sh for most scripting things so I haven't learned much of
the zsh-isms.....
TjL
--
"It takes real courage to be a Macintosh user; it takes real
conviction; not unlike being a Christian in the days of the Romans."
- Guy Kawasaki, Chief Evangelist for Apple Computer - from "Hotseat"
interview with John McChesney (3/28/97) [ my birthday! ]
prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-02-28 1:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-02-27 20:58 Timothy J Luoma
1998-02-27 21:52 ` Bart Schaefer
1998-02-28 1:10 ` Timothy J Luoma [this message]
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