From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14356 invoked by alias); 18 Jan 2017 16:14:03 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@zsh.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes List-Id: Zsh Users List List-Post: List-Help: X-Seq: 22397 Received: (qmail 2946 invoked from network); 18 Jan 2017 16:14:03 -0000 X-Qmail-Scanner-Diagnostics: from mta01.eastlink.ca by f.primenet.com.au (envelope-from , uid 7791) with qmail-scanner-2.11 (clamdscan: 0.99.2/21882. spamassassin: 3.4.1. Clear:RC:0(24.224.136.30):SA:0(-3.9/5.0):. Processed in 1.126935 secs); 18 Jan 2017 16:14:03 -0000 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.1 (2015-04-28) on f.primenet.com.au X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.9 required=5.0 tests=RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW, RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_PASS autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.1 X-Envelope-From: rayandrews@eastlink.ca X-Qmail-Scanner-Mime-Attachments: | X-Qmail-Scanner-Zip-Files: | Received-SPF: pass (ns1.primenet.com.au: SPF record at _spf.eastlink.ca designates 24.224.136.30 as permitted sender) X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.2 cv=ZvqvEJzG c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=28Ntk8jg+Dho8ABWn/CRtA==:117 a=28Ntk8jg+Dho8ABWn/CRtA==:17 a=IkcTkHD0fZMA:10 a=v6KTIcCuTTgjRzvJ7wQA:9 a=QEXdDO2ut3YA:10 a=sns-4qYc68gA:10 X-EL-IP-NOAUTH: 24.207.16.108 To: Zsh Users From: Ray Andrews Subject: this should be easy variable expansion including globs. Message-id: <52be7a1a-2da8-a4b6-905a-3eea694763c3@eastlink.ca> Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2017 08:13:54 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/45.4.0 MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit $ var1=var1 $ var2=var2 $ var3=var3 $ var99=var99 $ for f ($var*) echo $f var1 var2 var3 var99 ... How do I do what I'm trying to do there? This reminds me a bit of my previous issue with 'whence -m' where the glob refers to a pattern, not a list of files but I can't get the syntax right. Everything I google presumes the latter (file globbing).