From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4670 invoked from network); 12 Mar 2002 17:08:10 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 12 Mar 2002 17:08:10 -0000 Received: (qmail 2715 invoked by alias); 12 Mar 2002 17:07:51 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 4750 Received: (qmail 2700 invoked from network); 12 Mar 2002 17:07:49 -0000 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20020312180017.02129008@imap.local.mscha.org> X-Sender: ml@imap.local.mscha.org (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 18:07:47 +0100 To: zsh-users@sunsite.dk From: Michael Schaap Subject: Running command in environment variable with space Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Hi, I'm trying to do something like: % blah='gvim -f' % $blah but this fails with zsh: command not found: gvim -f The same thing works fine in bash. I'm not sure if this is a bug or a feature, but is there a way to run a command with options specified in one environment variable? Thanks, - Michael -- I always wondered about the meaning of life. So I looked it up in the dictionary under "L" and there it was - the meaning of life. It was not what I expected. - Dogbert