From: Clinton Bunch <cdb_zsh@zentaur.org>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: unintuitive bracketing with return value
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2022 15:31:14 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44735e87-bf19-86b9-4bf4-5de684d3b1d6@zentaur.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <711da06a-5bd5-ed34-7a34-653eebe3aa4f@eastlink.ca>
On 10/18/2022 3:22 PM, Ray Andrews wrote:
>
> On 2022-10-18 12:32, Lawrence Velázquez wrote:
>> is equivalent to this:
>>
>> [ "${${1}##*[*?]*}" ] && echo "no wildcards"
>> printenv "$1" || echo wildcards present
>>
>> which is not at all what you want.
>
> Quite right, I expressed it poorly. Anyway the issue is closed, I
> understand it. I wonder how old I'll have to be before I stop
> thinking in C.
Try perl. Then you'll really be confused as to the proper syntax. :)
>
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-10-18 20:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-10-18 14:47 Ray Andrews
2022-10-18 14:57 ` Eric Cook
2022-10-18 17:57 ` Ray Andrews
2022-10-18 19:32 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2022-10-18 20:12 ` Bart Schaefer
2022-10-18 20:14 ` Bart Schaefer
2022-10-18 20:22 ` Ray Andrews
2022-10-18 20:31 ` Clinton Bunch [this message]
2022-10-18 16:07 ` Roman Perepelitsa
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