From: Kurtis Rader <krader@skepticism.us>
To: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
Cc: Zsh Users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: string to array space problem in filenames
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2015 21:48:17 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABx2=D_M+ijjcbjh2yY1C2zwzU6BvMF9kivRrFQwXvqF3pv-Vw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55E7C084.2060505@eastlink.ca>
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On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 8:37 PM, Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca> wrote:
> On 08/28/2015 12:43 PM, Bart Schaefer wrote:
>
> Bart,
>
> Got around to the spaces in filenames thing:
>
>>
>> If you insist on storing it all on one line, then you need to quote the
>> spaces on the way out:
>>
>> echo -n " ${(q)PWD}" >>! ~/.mydirstack;
>>
>> I've got it all more or less working except I can't figure out how to
> write the array--with newlines now, not with spaces--back to the file.
> Everything I try ends up on one line, which is now not what I want anymore.
>
See the "F" flag in the "Parameter Expansion Flags" of the "man zshparam"
page:
Join the words of arrays together using newline as a separator. This is
a shorthand for `pj:\n:'.
For example:
$ set -A x a b c
$ echo $x
a b c
$ echo ${(F)x}
a
b
c
--
Kurtis Rader
Caretaker of the exceptional canines Junior and Hank
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-03 4:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-08-21 20:50 zsh 5.0.8-test-2 Peter Stephenson
2015-08-22 0:10 ` Matthew Martin
2015-08-22 0:30 ` Michael Beasley
2015-08-22 0:45 ` Matthew Martin
2015-08-22 11:48 ` Jun T.
2015-08-22 17:04 ` Matthew Martin
2015-08-23 8:31 ` Daniel Shahaf
2015-08-23 12:45 ` Jun T.
2015-08-28 2:05 ` string to array space problem in filenames Ray Andrews
2015-08-28 3:15 ` Mikael Magnusson
2015-08-28 18:54 ` Ray Andrews
2015-08-28 19:43 ` Bart Schaefer
2015-08-28 20:42 ` Ray Andrews
2015-08-28 20:56 ` Peter Stephenson
2015-09-03 3:37 ` Ray Andrews
2015-09-03 4:48 ` Kurtis Rader [this message]
2015-09-03 5:25 ` Bart Schaefer
2015-09-03 5:53 ` Mikael Magnusson
2015-09-03 15:23 ` Ray Andrews
2015-09-03 15:30 ` Mikael Magnusson
2015-09-03 15:58 ` Ray Andrews
2015-09-03 16:08 ` Peter Stephenson
2015-09-03 16:11 ` Ray Andrews
2015-09-03 17:11 ` Ray Andrews
[not found] ` <55E86E0C.1000806__15798.3473306105$1441295967$gmane$org@eastlink.ca>
2015-09-03 16:21 ` Stephane Chazelas
2015-08-28 9:40 ` Peter Stephenson
2015-08-28 19:02 ` Ray Andrews
2015-08-28 19:45 ` Bart Schaefer
2015-08-28 20:35 ` Ray Andrews
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