From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14497 invoked from network); 30 Jun 2000 12:04:42 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 30 Jun 2000 12:04:42 -0000 Received: (qmail 18985 invoked by alias); 30 Jun 2000 12:04:17 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 3238 Received: (qmail 18977 invoked from network); 30 Jun 2000 12:04:15 -0000 Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 15:03:13 +0300 From: Mircea Damian To: Sven Wischnowsky Cc: zsh-users@sunsite.auc.dk Subject: Re: please advice Message-ID: <20000630150313.B3352@linux.kappa.ro> References: <200006301139.NAA00844@beta.informatik.hu-berlin.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <200006301139.NAA00844@beta.informatik.hu-berlin.de>; from wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de on Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 01:39:48PM +0200 On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 01:39:48PM +0200, Sven Wischnowsky wrote: > > One of the places where zsh differs from other shells, doing the right > thing. Yes. This is true. > > One possibility is to set the shwordsplit option, if you really want > it everywhere. Our you can force word splitting for that one parameter > expansion by using: `$=PRGARG'. > > The best way would be to use an array, though. > > PRGARG=(-bla1 -bla2 -bla3) > $0 $PRGARG Ok. It was exactly the example that I followed from "dircolors -z". I don't see what can be wrong if I use word splitting on that variable(btw, word splitting is done by using WORDCHARS or just white spaces?).. is there somewhere an impediment for that? > > Bye > Sven Thank you very much, -- Mircea Damian E-mails: dmircea@kappa.ro, dmircea@roedu.net WebPage: http://taz.mania.k.ro/~dmircea/