From: "Lawrence Velázquez" <larryv@zsh.org>
To: "Zach Riggle" <zachriggle@gmail.com>
Cc: "Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@brasslantern.com>, zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: Odd behavior with various (q) array modifiers and non-printable characters (backspace, newline)
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2021 20:34:05 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8d3c51cd-31f3-4dbe-a40d-fdc8b18bd593@www.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH+w=7YKt1HZDPWKn_c4QgV0hpiOqJmWo9DSoYSJnQvk2S9Q0w@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Aug 11, 2021, at 8:22 PM, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 4:25 PM Zach Riggle <zachriggle@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > TLDR 2: I also learned that (q+) is my new favorite, and my code
> > should use "command echo" to avoid the above behavior.
>
> You more likely want "setopt BSD_ECHO".
>
> You can also use
> disable echo
> but that might have unexpected side-effects on scripts written by others.
A third option is to stick to
print -r -- $foo
or
printf '%s\n' $foo
which behave predictably and are zsh builtins. (The latter is also
POSIX-compliant.)
--
vq
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-08-12 0:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-08-11 20:29 Zach Riggle
2021-08-11 21:16 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-08-11 21:42 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2021-08-11 23:25 ` Zach Riggle
2021-08-12 0:22 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-08-12 0:34 ` Lawrence Velázquez [this message]
2021-08-12 13:34 ` Ray Andrews
2021-08-12 0:36 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2021-08-14 15:52 ` Daniel Shahaf
2021-10-19 19:17 ` Zach Riggle
2021-10-21 14:24 ` Daniel Shahaf
2021-10-21 15:23 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-08-11 21:27 ` Bart Schaefer
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