From: Jerry Peek <jpeek@jpeek.com>
To: zsh-users@sunsite.auc.dk
Subject: Two esoteric zsh questions
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 13:21:52 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <24818.968185312@jpeek.com> (raw)
(Is *any* zsh question esoteric? Or are *all* zsh questions? ;-)
Here's a question that might be a bug, then a follow-up "how to".
I'm using 3.0.7 on Linux (Red Hat 6.2) right now.
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1) Can anyone explain the difference in the following two cases? The
first sets a shell variable; the second sets an environment variable.
In the second, I have to quote the `who`:
% whoson=`who`
%
% export WHOSON=`who`
zsh: not an identifier: 06:56
% export WHOSON="`who`"
%
(The first line of the "who" output ends with 06:56.)
I looked through the FAQ and scanned through a change list... but
didn't spot changes in more recent versions, so I'm asking the list.
Is the difference a bug, side effect, or feature?
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2) I wanted to compare the values of $whoson and $WHOSON. I couldn't
think of a way to use two <<< operators, so I tried this kludge:
% diff - <(echo $WHOSON) <<<$whoson
%
Does anyone know a cleaner way to do that?
[BTW, this next mess wasn't as simple but it worked fine too:
% diff - <(cat <<<$WHOSON) <<<$whoson
zsh is amazing...]
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Thanks!
--Jerry Peek, jpeek@jpeek.com
http://www.jpeek.com/
PS: I mentioned last spring that the third edition of Unix Power Tools
will cover zsh -- and asked if the new shell would be ready by August
so we could put it on the book's CD-ROM. FYI, due to some scheduling
problems, I'm still working on the book; the target date is early 2001.)
next reply other threads:[~2000-09-08 19:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-09-05 20:21 Jerry Peek [this message]
2000-09-08 20:19 ` Zefram
2000-09-08 22:25 ` Bart Schaefer
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