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From: =?UTF-8?B?SsOpcsOpbWllIFJvcXVldA==?= <arkanosis@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 14:19:00 +0200
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Subject: Re: dumb question about parameter expansion
To: sergio <mailbox@sergio.spb.ru>
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Hi Sergio,

2012/10/11 sergio <mailbox@sergio.spb.ru>:
> Looks like it's dumb question, but I can't understand this.
>
> % zsh -f
> % l=3D'ls'
> % o=3D'-l -h'
> % $l $o
> ls: invalid option -- ' '
> Try `ls --help' for more information.
>
> % ls -l -h
> total 512
> drwxr-x---  2 sergio sergio ...

Unlike other shells, zsh doesn't split unquoted variables by default.
If you want that behaviour, you can either:
 - =E2=80=9Csetopt shwordsplit=E2=80=9D to have it by default, or
 - use =E2=80=9C$l $=3Do=E2=80=9D to have it selectively (the =E2=80=9C=3D=
=E2=80=9D forces the split).

Best regards,

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J=C3=A9r=C3=A9mie