From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12373 invoked by alias); 3 Sep 2015 15:58:08 -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: 20501 Received: (qmail 348 invoked from network); 3 Sep 2015 15:58:07 -0000 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on f.primenet.com.au X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.1 cv=X+5rdgje c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=W9UYH+FrKn4AXTMgefo3uQ==:117 a=W9UYH+FrKn4AXTMgefo3uQ==:17 a=IkcTkHD0fZMA:10 a=iyL3CBo3-kFjH-L6looA:9 a=QEXdDO2ut3YA:10 Message-id: <55E86E0C.1000806@eastlink.ca> Date: Thu, 03 Sep 2015 08:58:04 -0700 From: Ray Andrews User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/31.7.0 MIME-version: 1.0 To: zsh-users@zsh.org Subject: Re: string to array space problem in filenames References: <20150821215037.6b010cf7@ntlworld.com> <55DFC1E6.5090400@eastlink.ca> <55E0AE60.9090706@eastlink.ca> <150828124334.ZM7129@torch.brasslantern.com> <55E7C084.2060505@eastlink.ca> <150902222539.ZM18111@torch.brasslantern.com> <55E86605.7080304@eastlink.ca> In-reply-to: Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit On 09/03/2015 08:30 AM, Mikael Magnusson wrote: > -r is good to use as I explained in my other mail, -u2 means to print > to stderr which would be a very strange thing to do here, since it > won't go to 'file'. I was just typing a post to ask about that ... I'll take that on faith, however one further question: print -rl - "${array[@]}" > file ... do I or don't I like the double dash that seems to usually be there? And a few code specimens have shown no dash(es) at all there, which scares me since disaster is never far away from the unwary.