From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11232 invoked from network); 12 Feb 1999 22:32:56 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 12 Feb 1999 22:32:56 -0000 Received: (qmail 10207 invoked by alias); 12 Feb 1999 22:32:13 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 2142 Received: (qmail 10175 invoked from network); 12 Feb 1999 22:32:09 -0000 From: "Bart Schaefer" Message-Id: <990212142955.ZM11598@candle.brasslantern.com> Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 14:29:55 -0800 In-Reply-To: <990212140558.ZM11520@candle.brasslantern.com> Comments: In reply to "Bart Schaefer" "Re: Setting paths with ~'s in values." (Feb 12, 2:05pm) References: <199902122018.PAA29284@po_box.cig.mot.com> <990212140558.ZM11520@candle.brasslantern.com> X-Mailer: Z-Mail Lite (5.0.0 30July97) To: "Larry P . Schrof" , zsh-users@sunsite.auc.dk Subject: Re: Setting paths with ~'s in values. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Feb 12, 2:05pm, Bart Schaefer wrote: > [...] Filename generation and expansion > is done in array assignments -- but that still doesn't expand the ~ . > So you need an additional "eval" for that, which means you don't need > the ~ any more. It just occurred to me that this is a potentially confusing paragraph. The ~ that you don't need if you have an "eval" is the one in ${~t_path}. The ~ that expands only when you have the "eval" is the one in each line read from .zpaths.