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From: ZyX <kp-pav@yandex.ru>
To: zzapper <david@rayninfo.co.uk>, "zsh-users@zsh.org" <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: can I access output of locate?
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2015 22:01:39 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <530591426273299@web30m.yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <XnsA45CAFF753C5Fdavidrayninfocouk@80.91.229.13>

13.03.2015, 20:19, "zzapper" <david@rayninfo.co.uk>:
> Edelwin Khaelos <edelwin@mailoo.org> wrote in news:55031519.9020906
> @mailoo.org:
> variables
>
> # then to answer my own question
> a=($(locate my.cnf))  # the outer () are important

Now locate something with a space. This variant works only as long as you are certain you have no characters from IFS in a file name.

Thus you should use a=( ${(0)"$(locate -0 my.cnf)"} ).

>
> echo ${a[1]}
>
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  reply	other threads:[~2015-03-13 19:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-13 16:23 zzapper
2015-03-13 16:46 ` zzapper
2015-03-13 16:49   ` Edelwin Khaelos
2015-03-13 17:17     ` zzapper
2015-03-13 19:01       ` ZyX [this message]
2015-03-14  3:57         ` Bart Schaefer

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