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From: "Lawrence Velázquez" <larryv@zsh.org>
To: jdh <dhenman@gmail.com>
Cc: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: print built-in doesn't print this.
Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2021 14:33:25 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <906e3713-cbb5-4d5a-b7eb-2cb81e4d7748@www.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211114111957.4514@sachi>

On Sun, Nov 14, 2021, at 2:19 PM, 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.
> Is this intentional?  Or a well known feature?

It's interpreting "--------" as an option.  To print strings that
begin with "-" you can use the common "--" idiom to indicate that
subsequent arguments should not be interpreted as options.

    % print ------

    % print -- ------
    ------

-- 
vq


  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-11-14 19:39 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 [this message]
2021-11-14 21:20 ` zzapper
2021-11-15  9:50 ` zzapper

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