From: Aaron Davies <aaron.davies@gmail.com>
To: Zsh Users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: wc and leading spaces
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 22:31:55 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACQi4XCUBJt1CEd1AGz=2_w33aBEhewFBi5FRV99cZTm=txw-w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADjGqHvYVmvqV+mF9Cdk6wbPoeq-n0pgSJQHwGm1xjaG1T_XVg@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 7:53 PM, TJ Luoma <luomat@gmail.com> wrote:
> Zsh question: Is there a way to get rid of the spaces without using
> either "| awk '{print $1}'" or "| sed 's#^ *##g'"?
one cheap way is to let zsh trim them off through word splitting rules
pro% wc foo
175 1898 15898 foo
pro% echo $(wc foo)
175 1898 15898 foo
there's presumably something you can do with zsh pattern matching
(14.3 Parameter Expansion in the info manual)....
--
Aaron Davies
aaron.davies@gmail.com
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-23 2:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-22 23:53 TJ Luoma
2011-08-23 0:21 ` Vincent Lefevre
2011-08-23 0:24 ` Vincent Lefevre
2011-08-23 1:37 ` Benjamin R. Haskell
2011-08-23 2:31 ` Aaron Davies [this message]
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