From: DervishD <zsh@dervishd.net>
To: Tero Niemela <tero_niemela@yahoo.com>
Cc: zsh-users@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: Two simple questions
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 10:36:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040915083655.GA1180@DervishD> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040915051128.66457.qmail@web61305.mail.yahoo.com>
Hi Tero :)
* Tero Niemela <tero_niemela@yahoo.com> dixit:
> > > # Clean up paths
> > > path=($^path(N))
> > > manpath=($^manpath(N))
> > I don't get that two. The 'N' sets nullglob for
> > that expansion,
> > right but, why the '^'? AFAIK that only turns on
> > 'RC_EXPAND_PARAM'
> > for that expansion :? I'm curious :)
> Those removes non-existing dirs from paths. It was
> suggested on this list just a couple of months ago.
Very clever! :) The '^' makes the '(N)' glob qualifier to be
added to each element of the array :)) Thanks a lot for the
explanation, is a very clever way of removing non-existent dirs from
a list (well, an array in this case).
Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado
--
Linux Registered User 88736
http://www.pleyades.net & http://raul.pleyades.net/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-15 8:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-13 15:52 Tero Niemela
2004-09-13 18:57 ` Björn Lindström
2004-09-13 21:10 ` DervishD
2004-09-14 16:37 ` Tero Niemela
2004-09-14 17:19 ` DervishD
2004-09-14 18:55 ` Tero Niemela
2004-09-14 19:09 ` DervishD
2004-09-15 5:11 ` Tero Niemela
2004-09-15 8:36 ` DervishD [this message]
2004-09-15 10:29 ` Stephane Chazelas
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