Will the (e) actually evaluate the parameters and execute them again? Or
just a single layer of expansion?

On Sat, Sep 4, 2021 at 3:08 PM Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 3, 2021 at 10:38 AM Zach Riggle <zachriggle@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > What exactly might you want captured?
> >
> > Very frequently I build a create an array that contains a command [...]
> > And invoke it like:
> >
> >     "${cmd[@]}"
>
> Given that you're doing it that way (rather than say "eval" it), you
> should be able to use TRAPDEBUG and just do this:
>
> TRAPDEBUG() { ACTUAL_CMD=${(e)ZSH_DEBUG_CMD} }
>
> You may want some other "protection" around that, such as only doing
> it when ZSH_DEBUG_CMD matches a pattern.
>
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*Zach Riggle*