From: Vin Shelton <acs@alumni.princeton.edu>
To: Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com>
Cc: "zsh-users@zsh.org" <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: Regular expression expanding and matching
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2012 14:18:40 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACeGjnWyUs2Xp0J4Zr46pG=i=kCMan+1s3vV3EUQqhDWZv-ZPg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121125185741.3e99b7f0@pws-pc.ntlworld.com>
Peter -
On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 1:57 PM, Peter Stephenson
<p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> To put it more broadly, arguments in [[ ... ]] get expanded in all
> the ways that make sense for generating a single word. So file name
> generation (globbing) doesn't happen, and array substitution
> produces a single word (as if double quotes surrounded the array),
> but otherwise it works like a normal command line argument. So the
> normal quoting rule for backslashes apply.
That is very well put - thanks for the neat summary.
- Vin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-25 19:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-25 15:45 Mark van Dijk
2012-11-25 18:30 ` Vin Shelton
2012-11-25 19:09 ` Mark van Dijk
2012-11-25 18:57 ` Peter Stephenson
2012-11-25 19:18 ` Vin Shelton [this message]
2012-11-25 19:30 ` Bart Schaefer
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