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Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2018 23:53:21 +0100
From: Marc Chantreux <khatar@phear.org>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: avoid eval?
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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