From: Peter Stephenson <p.stephenson@samsung.com>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: string to array space problem in filenames
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 2015 17:08:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150903170810.09eef74e@pwslap01u.europe.root.pri> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55E86E0C.1000806@eastlink.ca>
On Thu, 3 Sep 2015 08:58:04 -0700
Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca> wrote:
> however one further question:
>
> print -rl - "${array[@]}" > file
>
> ... do I or don't I like the double dash that seems to usually be there?
> And a few code specimens have shown no dash(es) at all there, which scares
> me since disaster is never far away from the unwary.
"-" is a longer standing way of doing things here; "--" is a more recent
standard. Unless you're using a very old version of the shell it
doesn't matter.
Yes, getting into the habit of using those anyway is a good idea. If
you're dealing with file names absolute paths, though, you'll get away
with on this occasion.
pws
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-03 16:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-08-21 20:50 zsh 5.0.8-test-2 Peter Stephenson
2015-08-22 0:10 ` Matthew Martin
2015-08-22 0:30 ` Michael Beasley
2015-08-22 0:45 ` Matthew Martin
2015-08-22 11:48 ` Jun T.
2015-08-22 17:04 ` Matthew Martin
2015-08-23 8:31 ` Daniel Shahaf
2015-08-23 12:45 ` Jun T.
2015-08-28 2:05 ` string to array space problem in filenames Ray Andrews
2015-08-28 3:15 ` Mikael Magnusson
2015-08-28 18:54 ` Ray Andrews
2015-08-28 19:43 ` Bart Schaefer
2015-08-28 20:42 ` Ray Andrews
2015-08-28 20:56 ` Peter Stephenson
2015-09-03 3:37 ` Ray Andrews
2015-09-03 4:48 ` Kurtis Rader
2015-09-03 5:25 ` Bart Schaefer
2015-09-03 5:53 ` Mikael Magnusson
2015-09-03 15:23 ` Ray Andrews
2015-09-03 15:30 ` Mikael Magnusson
2015-09-03 15:58 ` Ray Andrews
2015-09-03 16:08 ` Peter Stephenson [this message]
2015-09-03 16:11 ` Ray Andrews
2015-09-03 17:11 ` Ray Andrews
[not found] ` <55E86E0C.1000806__15798.3473306105$1441295967$gmane$org@eastlink.ca>
2015-09-03 16:21 ` Stephane Chazelas
2015-08-28 9:40 ` Peter Stephenson
2015-08-28 19:02 ` Ray Andrews
2015-08-28 19:45 ` Bart Schaefer
2015-08-28 20:35 ` Ray Andrews
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