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From: Marc Chantreux <khatar@phear.org>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: avoid eval?
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2018 23:53:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180311225321.shqrx7idd57ie62d@prometheus.u-strasbg.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <059f4f08-7f7f-25d8-dfeb-1653e3c8ba95@eastlink.ca>

hello,

> ... within the function?  The way I have it is surely a bit abominable,
> somehow 'cp' needs to know that "now is the time" is one argument.  I should
> know this.

"$@" expands as an array and "$*" expands as a string so

func () cp oldfile "$*"

should probably do what you expect.

regards
marc


  reply	other threads:[~2018-03-11 23:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-11 20:48 Ray Andrews
2018-03-11 22:53 ` Marc Chantreux [this message]
2018-03-12  0:43   ` Ray Andrews
2018-03-13  2:13     ` Ray Andrews
2018-03-13  2:17       ` Eric Cook
2018-03-13 16:36       ` (some tips about variables) " Marc Chantreux
2018-03-13 17:50         ` Ray Andrews
2018-03-13 20:39           ` Marc Chantreux
2018-03-13 21:50             ` Ray Andrews

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