From: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
To: "Lawrence Velázquez" <vq@larryv.me>
Cc: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: The "-" and "--" options (was Re: ${var:1:1:=y})
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2015 17:31:49 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54D2C805.9020906@eastlink.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <260A930A-CA77-4BDB-8827-047F742FD3CF@larryv.me>
On 02/04/2015 03:47 PM, Lawrence Velázquez wrote:
> As others have opined, expecting "consistency" from any echo(1) is a bad
> bet,
Indeed, and as I said, I'm glad I no longer have any expectations there.
> % echo - -
Ok, the first hyphen gets eaten, and the next one is literal. Still,
shouldn't
single quotes make anything inside them literal?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-02-05 1:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-02-03 23:12 ${var:1:1:=y} Ray Andrews
2015-02-04 0:18 ` ${var:1:1:=y} Lawrence Velázquez
2015-02-04 0:39 ` ${var:1:1:=y} Ray Andrews
2015-02-04 1:30 ` ${var:1:1:=y} Lawrence Velázquez
2015-02-04 3:25 ` ${var:1:1:=y} Bart Schaefer
2015-02-04 3:44 ` ${var:1:1:=y} Eric Cook
2015-02-04 17:10 ` The "-" and "--" options (was Re: ${var:1:1:=y}) Bart Schaefer
2015-02-04 17:42 ` Ray Andrews
2015-02-04 23:47 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2015-02-05 1:31 ` Ray Andrews [this message]
2015-02-05 1:52 ` Kurtis Rader
2015-02-05 2:03 ` Ray Andrews
2015-02-05 2:24 ` Bart Schaefer
2015-02-04 19:02 ` Peter Stephenson
2015-02-04 19:53 ` ZyX
2015-02-04 5:16 ` ${var:1:1:=y} Ray Andrews
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