* turning off quote interpolation
@ 2004-04-19 11:18 Eric Smith
2004-04-19 16:17 ` Philippe Troin
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From: Eric Smith @ 2004-04-19 11:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: zsh-users
I have for example a function that passes args to google search.
Most times I \"quote a few words\" but have to escape the quotes so that
the shell passes them through to the command :)
How can I have zsh pass the quotes through without having
to type extra backslashes or whatever?
Thanks!
--
Eric Smith
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* Re: turning off quote interpolation
2004-04-19 11:18 turning off quote interpolation Eric Smith
@ 2004-04-19 16:17 ` Philippe Troin
2004-04-19 16:22 ` Eric Smith
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From: Philippe Troin @ 2004-04-19 16:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Eric Smith; +Cc: zsh-users
Eric Smith <es@fruitcom.com> writes:
> I have for example a function that passes args to google search.
> Most times I \"quote a few words\" but have to escape the quotes so that
> the shell passes them through to the command :)
>
> How can I have zsh pass the quotes through without having
> to type extra backslashes or whatever?
Show us the function...
Phil.
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* Re: turning off quote interpolation
2004-04-19 16:17 ` Philippe Troin
@ 2004-04-19 16:22 ` Eric Smith
2004-04-19 16:56 ` Phil Pennock
2004-04-20 4:00 ` Bart Schaefer
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From: Eric Smith @ 2004-04-19 16:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: zsh-users
Sure,
goo () {
w3m "http://www.google.com/search?q=$1+$2+$3+$4+$5+$6+$7+$8&num=100"
}
... trivial
According to Philippe Troin on Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 09:17:44AM -0700:
> Eric Smith <es@fruitcom.com> writes:
>
> > I have for example a function that passes args to google search.
> > Most times I \"quote a few words\" but have to escape the quotes so that
> > the shell passes them through to the command :)
> >
> > How can I have zsh pass the quotes through without having
> > to type extra backslashes or whatever?
>
> Show us the function...
Eric
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* Re: turning off quote interpolation
2004-04-19 16:22 ` Eric Smith
@ 2004-04-19 16:56 ` Phil Pennock
2004-04-20 4:00 ` Bart Schaefer
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From: Phil Pennock @ 2004-04-19 16:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: zsh-users
On 2004-04-19 at 18:22 +0200, Eric Smith wrote:
> goo () {
> w3m "http://www.google.com/search?q=$1+$2+$3+$4+$5+$6+$7+$8&num=100"
> }
If memory serves, you can't turn off the quoting stuff since that
happens well before it's passed to a function or alias.
FWIW, the power of zsh lets you do something like join the elements of
an array together with a specified string used between each element.
Eg, my equivalent function is defined as:
function google {
${WebBrowser:-w3m} "http://www.google.com/search?q=${(j:+:)@}"
}
So, something like:
function goo { w3m "http://www.google.com/search?q=${(j:+:)@}&num=100" }
should help you get rid of that limit which you have.
Beyond that, it's just a matter of getting into the habit of trapping
quotes around strings, to allow things like & in a URL.
I got in the habit of things like:
% google '"Elizabeth Moon"'
to look up information on one of my favourite authors, for instance.
-Phil
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* Re: turning off quote interpolation
2004-04-19 16:22 ` Eric Smith
2004-04-19 16:56 ` Phil Pennock
@ 2004-04-20 4:00 ` Bart Schaefer
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From: Bart Schaefer @ 2004-04-20 4:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: zsh-users
On Apr 19, 6:22pm, Eric Smith wrote:
}
} goo () {
} w3m "http://www.google.com/search?q=$1+$2+$3+$4+$5+$6+$7+$8&num=100"
} }
Question: Does it harm anything to include quotes when they aren't
needed?
goo() {
w3m "http://www.google.com/search?q=${(j:+:)${(qqq)@}}&num=100"
}
With that def'n, the command
goo "foo bar" baz
calls w3m on a URL that looks like
http://www.google.com/search?q="foo bar"+"baz"&num=100
where the quotes around "baz" are extraneous but (I think) harmless.
Note though that also with that def'n the command
goo 'foo " bar'
produces the URL
http://www.google.com/search?q="foo \" bar"&num=100
in which the backslash may not do what you want.
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