From: Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: string overwrites string when echoed
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2017 17:59:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170910175943.77a8313a@ntlworld.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86shfumrzm.fsf@zoho.com>
On Sun, 10 Sep 2017 18:35:25 +0200
Emanuel Berg <moasen@zoho.com> wrote:
> Bart Schaefer wrote:
>
> > The value of $reply has an embedded
> > carriage-return. You can see this if you use:
> >
> > echo "$u ${(V)reply}" echo "${(V)reply} $u"
>
> echo "${(V)reply} $u" works, only how do I drop
> the ^M then?
Replacing $reply with ${reply%%$'\r'} would do the trick.
There may be something you can do with stty, but that's
a bit out of the scope of the shell (or indeed sanity :-().
pws
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-10 16:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-09 12:55 Emanuel Berg
2017-09-09 17:01 ` Bart Schaefer
2017-09-10 16:35 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-09-10 16:59 ` Peter Stephenson [this message]
2017-09-10 18:23 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-09-10 18:57 ` Peter Stephenson
2017-09-10 19:01 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-09-10 21:50 ` Bart Schaefer
2017-09-10 22:11 ` Emanuel Berg
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