Running command in environment variable with space

Running command in environment variable with space

[Michael Schaap]

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

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Re: Running command in environment variable with space

[Vincent Lefevre]

On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 18:07:47 +0100, Michael Schaap wrote:
> 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?

Try $=blah

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Re: Running command in environment variable with space

[Michael Schaap]

At 18:14 12-3-2002, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
>On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 18:07:47 +0100, Michael Schaap wrote:
> > 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?
>
>Try $=blah

Thanks, that does the trick.
(This also pointed me to SH_WORD_SPLIT, which is what I was looking for, 
but missed the first time I looked through the zshoptions manpage.  (No, 
really!))

  - Michael

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     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