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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: Zsh Users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: syntactic question
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 15:45:57 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH+w=7bLvkLMP6e2aZW-qv5mPnrT_qvZSoVFD34KXk86O+5TyA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABx2=D8cNJJnbJtOavi_0tXf7bOssMLHaRfe8MBoaHHpXB3r9A@mail.gmail.com>

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On Nov 21, 2014 1:43 PM, "Kurtis Rader" <krader@skepticism.us> wrote:
>
> Is this understandable for a mere mortal? Yes, but it requires a good
grasp
> for the rules of how a statement is parsed into tokens.

Also, as you indirectly pointed out, it requires understanding that some
tokens are handled by the shell on input whereas others are handled by
commands like echo on output.  You can always confuse yourself if you mix
the two.

  reply	other threads:[~2014-11-22  2:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-21 20:23 Ray Andrews
2014-11-21 21:29 ` Bart Schaefer
2014-11-21 23:46   ` Ray Andrews
2014-11-22  0:00     ` Bart Schaefer
2014-11-22  1:40       ` Ray Andrews
2014-11-21 21:42 ` Kurtis Rader
2014-11-21 23:45   ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
2014-11-22  4:39     ` Ray Andrews

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