From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
Cc: Zsh Users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: protect spaces and/or globs
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2021 14:14:00 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH+w=7Z6qDQPT5Mvep086mNEJ3hnJ10euN3LM=Bcgcb=5ST5_Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ff295c60-0697-d47a-4391-25931400a148@eastlink.ca>
On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 12:54 PM Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca> wrote:
>
> [...] So I assemble my string, save it
> to history (optionally) and then eval it to fire it off.
> [...] But the whole show requires the whole command to
> exist as a string so it can be saved and thus it needs 'eval' to fire it
> off ... unless I'm mistaken.
Following on my last message, it should work fine to do
print -sr -- "${(@q)sarray}"
You probably want (@q-) there, to minimize the number of quoted
things, or (@q+) if you use a lot of unicode characters or control
strings.
Only "print -S" requires a single string argument.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-10 22:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-09 20:42 Ray Andrews
2021-02-09 21:05 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2021-02-09 21:08 ` Peter Stephenson
2021-02-09 23:45 ` Ray Andrews
2021-02-10 0:22 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2021-02-10 0:51 ` Ray Andrews
2021-02-10 1:46 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2021-02-10 2:25 ` Ray Andrews
2021-02-10 2:52 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2021-02-10 1:52 ` Greg Klanderman
2021-02-10 2:29 ` Ray Andrews
2021-02-10 15:18 ` Ray Andrews
2021-02-10 15:47 ` Peter Stephenson
2021-02-10 16:19 ` Ray Andrews
2021-02-10 16:29 ` Peter Stephenson
2021-02-10 20:53 ` Ray Andrews
2021-02-10 22:14 ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
2021-02-11 16:31 ` Ray Andrews
2021-02-11 17:19 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2021-02-11 19:48 ` Ray Andrews
2021-02-10 18:08 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-02-10 20:56 ` Ray Andrews
2021-02-10 16:28 ` Lawrence Velázquez
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