Re: protect spaces and/or globs

[Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>]

On 2021-02-09 5:46 p.m., Lawrence Velázquez wrote:

> ... which youhave already decided is an ulcer and cannot possibly be 
> anything
> other than an ulcer.
It would take far too long to explain the whole show.  If you have the 
time and interest
contact me privately and I'll show you what I'm up to.  But I already 
waste far too much
of the list's time.

> It sure sounds like you're assembling a scalar and eval-ing it, 

That's exactly what I'm doing. But far more.

> % () { eval "print -rC1 -- ${(q)@}" } a 'b c' d 'e f g'
> 	a
> 	b c
> 	d
> 	e f g
>
>
Thing is that if those args were going to grep and they were filenames 
you'd end up with:

$ grep [some search string] a b c d e f g
... whereas your filenames are 'a'   'b c'   d   and   'e  f  g'.
The single quotes must be preserved or the spaces backslashed.  But as  
I just posted, double quoting the whole filespec:

"a 'b c' d 'e f g' "
... appears to be working fine.  grep looks in four files not seven.   
Seems the double quotes preserve the single quotes.