From: Roman Perepelitsa <roman.perepelitsa@gmail.com>
To: "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@gmail.com>
Cc: Zsh Users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: Counting characters in command output?
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2024 07:49:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAN=4vMp1gcSbE19cbKoW9JJMs_dVhedbOYrwZRVQjbuEg0rNqw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAA=-s3z3dwdPY4ahJSOZZC7_vH5VwUJxt-UEo9BW=8qzu0WTSg@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Feb 14, 2024 at 1:46 AM Mark J. Reed <markjreed@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Feb 13, 2024 at 3:41 PM Roman Perepelitsa <roman.perepelitsa@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Process substitution gives you an array. Quote it if you need a scalar.
>
> You mean command substitution, but thanks! It wouldn't have
> occurred to me to put quotes around it to change what the `#` was
> counting!
Right, command substitution. In my opinion, it's unfortunate that
command substitution in zsh splits on IFS by default. I wish this
wasn't the case. It's not even common that one wants to split command
output into words. Lines -- perhaps, but not words. So the default
behavior in this case is rarely what is desired and has to be actively
turned off.
Roman.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-02-14 6:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-02-13 20:38 Mark J. Reed
2024-02-13 20:41 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2024-02-14 0:45 ` Mark J. Reed
2024-02-14 6:49 ` Roman Perepelitsa [this message]
2024-02-14 13:56 ` Mark J. Reed
2024-02-14 15:36 ` Ray Andrews
2024-02-14 15:58 ` Mark J. Reed
2024-02-14 16:30 ` Ray Andrews
2024-02-15 14:34 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2024-02-15 9:50 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2024-02-15 14:30 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2024-02-15 15:29 ` Ray Andrews
2024-02-15 16:16 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2024-02-15 16:55 ` Ray Andrews
2024-02-15 14:53 ` Ray Andrews
2024-02-16 1:53 ` Bart Schaefer
2024-02-16 4:53 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2024-02-16 18:03 ` Bart Schaefer
2024-02-16 18:38 ` Mark J. Reed
2024-02-16 19:36 ` Bart Schaefer
2024-02-16 19:37 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2024-02-16 21:06 ` Mikael Magnusson
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