From: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
To: Zsh Users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: unmatched '
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2018 09:50:35 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2dcec644-7acb-5916-2858-2301206f1da8@eastlink.ca> (raw)
I have a function that lists all directories matching a nesting set of
strings:
$ c etc systemd system
... the list is culled by matching each string in turn. It works fine
except that:
$ c etc
(eval):1: unmatched '
... but that's the one and only directory that throws that error. I've
tested dozens of directories and combinations and all are fine except
'etc'. I suspect this abomination:
/etc/DSHR's Blog: Using the official Linux overlayfs_files
... God knows why that's permitted, but I'm thinking that the single
quote is doing the obvious thing as far as 'eval' in concerned. Can I
prevent that? Or, if it must be an error, can I get eval to ignore it
somehow? The offending line is this:
baz=(`eval print -l $bar $grepstring`)
... I want to sent the output of printing '$bar' after it's been piped
through the chain of greps that are built up and saved in the
'$grepstring' variable, and save that filtered and colored result in
'$baz'. Apart from the above, it works perfectly. I'm betting there's
a flag ${(flag)bar} that fixes it, i.e. forcing " DSHR's " to be
literal. Otherwise I will excoriate the offending directories. Work of
the Devil.
next reply other threads:[~2018-03-09 17:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-09 17:50 Ray Andrews [this message]
2018-03-09 20:23 ` Bart Schaefer
2018-03-09 22:45 ` Ray Andrews
2018-03-09 23:12 ` Ray Andrews
2018-03-10 3:20 ` Aaron Schrab
2018-03-10 3:51 ` Ray Andrews
2018-03-10 17:40 ` Ray Andrews
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