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From: TJ Luoma <luomat@gmail.com>
To: Zsh-Users List <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: removing spaces in variables when using :t or :r or similar
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2018 21:28:11 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADjGqHvZESTxjvAAiiSp34i4nk=c+pL=pNiDqEWBHoM2YMouDA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

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Let's use this variable as an example:

INSTALL_TO='/Applications/Keyboard Maestro.app'

Now, if I want to get just "keyboard maestro" I can use this:

$INSTALL_TO:t:r:l

But what if I want "keyboardmaestro" ?

I tried this:

echo "${INSTALL_TO:t:r:l// /}"

but that just produced this error:

zsh: unrecognized modifier

I realize I could do this:

FOO="${INSTALL_TO// /}"

echo "$FOO:t:r:l"

but I'd rather avoid using a second variable, if I can avoid it.

Is there a way to do that with zsh, or am I stuck just sending it to `tr -d
' '` ?

Thanks!

TjL

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TJ Luoma
TJ @ MacStories
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Twitter: @tjluoma

             reply	other threads:[~2018-09-12  1:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-12  1:28 TJ Luoma [this message]
2018-09-12  1:35 ` Alexandros Kozak
2018-09-12  5:07   ` TJ Luoma

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