From: Vincent Stemen <zsh@hightek.org>
To: zsh-users@sunsite.dk
Subject: Splitting string to array removes pipe symbol
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 02:34:49 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031216083449.GA9113@quark.localdomain> (raw)
Greetings.
First, let me take this opportunity to say thank you for such a
wonderful shell. After switching over to Z shell I would never want
to go back to any of the previous shells. Bash has served me well
over the years, but I am burning my bridge behind me.
I am working on a script that splits a string into an array in
preparation for execution with something like
cmd="uncompress foobar | cpio -i --quiet --unconditional"
cmd=($=cmd)
However, when the globsubst option is set, it removes the pipe '|'
symbol when it does the split. Here is the trace output.
+./t:62> cmd=uncompress foobar | cpio -i --quiet --unconditional
+./t:63> cmd=( uncompress foobar cpio -i --quiet --unconditional )
If this is not a bug, then I must not fully understand the function of
GLOB_SUBST. I have it set so that variables with wild cards, etc in
them will expand to a list of filenames. Why would it remove the pipe
from the string in this case?
I am running zsh-4.1.0.dev5 on FreeBSD-5.1 in case it is relevant.
Regards,
Vincent
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next reply other threads:[~2003-12-16 10:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-16 8:34 Vincent Stemen [this message]
2003-12-16 10:51 ` Peter Stephenson
2003-12-19 6:47 ` Vincent Stemen
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