From: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: here document within a switch fails to parse.
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2021 11:39:52 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19f99e83-5859-50a9-f598-fb6b633c7d1d@eastlink.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <600797233.2799876.1610129180019@mail2.virginmedia.com>
On 2021-01-08 10:06 a.m., Peter Stephenson wrote:
>
> (In particular, it does NOT think "oh, this is Ray abusing
> the ":" command, so I'd better not do my usual processing". Nobody
> has got around to adding that mode to the shell yet.)
setopt RAY_ABUSING_ZSH
Good idea!
>
> The second $(...) is evaluated. This time, there's a redirection,
> so the argument gets sent to stderr, so you see it. There's
> no output to stdout, so what will actually be substituted into
> the argument on the command line is the empty string.
That's quite logical. the $() is evaluated both times, I just don't see
the output for one of them. Thanks Peter. But I still think we should
have comment blocks. Yeah, I know it's not shellish.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-08 19:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-06 15:13 Ray Andrews
2021-01-06 16:20 ` Daniel Shahaf
2021-01-06 17:17 ` Ray Andrews
2021-01-06 17:58 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2021-01-06 19:18 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-01-07 7:55 ` Ray Andrews
2021-01-07 15:32 ` Daniel Shahaf
2021-01-07 20:16 ` Ray Andrews
2021-01-08 15:27 ` Karsten Borgwaldt
2021-01-08 15:53 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2021-01-08 17:13 ` Ray Andrews
2021-01-08 18:06 ` Peter Stephenson
2021-01-08 19:39 ` Ray Andrews [this message]
2021-01-08 19:56 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-01-09 0:45 ` Ray Andrews
2021-01-09 17:28 ` Ray Andrews
2021-01-12 13:28 ` Daniel Shahaf
2021-01-12 14:45 ` Ray Andrews
2021-01-13 16:17 ` Daniel Shahaf
2021-01-13 21:57 ` Pier Paolo Grassi
2021-01-13 23:39 ` Ray Andrews
2021-01-13 23:54 ` Lawrence Velázquez
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