From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3053 invoked by alias); 22 Nov 2014 02:10:52 -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: 19418 Received: (qmail 6514 invoked from network); 22 Nov 2014 02:10:38 -0000 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on f.primenet.com.au X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.1 cv=HYUtEE08 c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=SBdK3agBVlyT/P6vVha89Q==:117 a=SBdK3agBVlyT/P6vVha89Q==:17 a=G8GL833Es-AA:10 a=IkcTkHD0fZMA:10 a=-5cCkDRIiso2ohXfA4MA:9 a=QEXdDO2ut3YA:10 Message-id: <546FE98E.6010006@eastlink.ca> Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 17:40:30 -0800 From: Ray Andrews User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/31.2.0 MIME-version: 1.0 To: zsh-users@zsh.org Subject: Re: syntactic question References: <546F9F41.8040608@eastlink.ca> <546FCECC.70602@eastlink.ca> In-reply-to: Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit On 11/21/2014 04:00 PM, Bart Schaefer wrote: > On Nov 21, 2014 3:46 PM, "Ray Andrews" wrote: >> Bart, is there some readable doc that wraps it all up? In practice I > get most all my problems solved now, but I despair of really understanding > it, I tend to use trial and error. > > Minimally, section 6.9 Quoting in the zsh info explains the three types of > quotes (backticks look like quotes but are really a substitution). > > Then you need 14.3 Parameter Expansion and 14.4 Command Substitution to > explain what happens inside double quotes. 14.3.2 Rules and 14.3.3 > Examples may be the most helpful. > Thanks, it's queued.