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From: Han Pingtian <hanpt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: globbing in assignment
Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 09:59:30 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120524015930.GC2383@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120523113056.3021a8d7@pwslap01u.europe.root.pri>

On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 11:30:56AM +0100, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> On Wed, 23 May 2012 18:08:46 +0800
> Ah, you're misunderstanding what's going on.
> 
> GLOB_ASSIGN has the effect that
> 
> v=*
> 
> expands * at this point.  The value of v contains all the files.
> 
> GLOB_SUBST has the effect that a variable is expanded at the point where
> it's substituted.  So without GLOB_ASSIGN, or equivalently quoting the
> value assigned to v,
> 
> % v='*'
> % setopt globsubst
> % print $v
> <files>
> % unsetopt globsubt
> % print $v
> *
> 
Thanks. Now I got it.


      reply	other threads:[~2012-05-24  2:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-23  6:18 Han Pingtian
2012-05-23  9:10 ` Peter Stephenson
2012-05-23 10:08   ` Han Pingtian
2012-05-23 10:30     ` Peter Stephenson
2012-05-24  1:59       ` Han Pingtian [this message]

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