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From: zzapper <zsh@rayninfo.co.uk>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: print built-in doesn't print this.
Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2021 21:20:07 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8ac6cd4e-6c20-1c50-9924-5bdfacb985fa@rayninfo.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211114111957.4514@sachi>


On 14/11/2021 19:19, jdh wrote:
> I wanted to insert a string of '-'s to visually show a change in a list.
> But  I found out that
>
>       print "--------"
>
> Does not print anything out. Well maybe a \n.
>
> ls --------
ls: unrecognised option '--------'
Try 'ls --help' for more information.
  > ls -- --------
ls: cannot access '--------': No such file or directory

-- is useful for avoiding ambiguity

And is also used with zargs  ##  but is that he same thing?

zargs  /tmp/*(.m+30) -- rm

zzapper



  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-11-14 21:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-11-14 19:19 jdh
2021-11-14 19:27 ` Norbert Zeh
2021-11-14 19:29 ` Peter Stephenson
2021-11-15  5:30   ` Mikael Magnusson
2021-11-15 16:31   ` Bart Schaefer
2021-11-15 16:46     ` Peter Stephenson
2021-11-14 19:29 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2021-11-14 19:33 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2021-11-14 21:20 ` zzapper [this message]
2021-11-15  9:50 ` zzapper

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