From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
Cc: Zsh Users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: array with newlines preserved as literal text
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2021 20:24:54 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH+w=7YZUtBDfDqxxK_=b1nEc0f6MSfryNfwz5Pa_G4Pmth1mg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f83ae88d-35cc-a742-9ae4-0b59a39f3421@eastlink.ca>
On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 8:17 PM Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca> wrote:
>
> Maybe just obsolete culture.
You can't be that much older than me. :-D
> I learned that the tail was switches
> followed by arguments.
Ah, "switches". DOS background instead of UNIX, I wager.
> > RTM?
> God no!
You could at least look up "preexec" in the index ...
> > Preexec gets three strings in $@.
>
> Or more than three:
No, just three. If it looks like more, that's an artifact of the way
you're printing it.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-05 4:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-02 19:16 Ray Andrews
2021-02-02 19:26 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2021-02-03 1:10 ` Ray Andrews
2021-02-02 20:25 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-02-02 23:31 ` Ray Andrews
2021-02-03 2:21 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-02-03 19:29 ` Ray Andrews
2021-02-03 21:19 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-02-04 2:07 ` Ray Andrews
2021-02-05 2:57 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-02-04 21:55 ` Ray Andrews
2021-02-05 3:22 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-02-05 4:17 ` Ray Andrews
2021-02-05 4:24 ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
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