From: Daniel Shahaf <d.s@daniel.shahaf.name>
To: Ben Klein <robobenklein@gmail.com>
Cc: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: Capturing STDOUT without subshells or file I/O
Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2018 14:02:14 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180903140214.76kbzgpfru6atc5u@tarpaulin.shahaf.local2> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <04a12c6a-c926-b088-f386-8a2bdb81dad2@gmail.com>
Ben Klein wrote on Sun, Sep 02, 2018 at 16:57:49 -0400:
> I have an interesting predicament, I with to capture the STDOUT (builtin
> printf) of a ZSH function to a variable, in which the function should be
> running in the current shell context.
Just pass -v to the builtin printf, e.g.,
% printf -v foo 'a%03d' 42
% typeset -p foo
a042
%
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-03 14:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-02 20:57 Ben Klein
2018-09-03 0:40 ` Joey Pabalinas
2018-09-03 14:02 ` Daniel Shahaf [this message]
2018-09-03 18:43 ` Joey Pabalinas
2018-09-17 20:13 ` Ben Klein
2018-09-17 20:46 ` Daniel Shahaf
2018-09-17 21:01 ` Mikael Magnusson
2018-09-17 21:20 ` Bart Schaefer
2018-09-17 21:19 ` dana
2018-09-17 21:33 ` Bart Schaefer
2018-09-18 5:12 ` Sebastian Gniazdowski
2018-09-21 6:58 ` Oliver Kiddle
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