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From: Roman Perepelitsa <roman.perepelitsa@gmail.com>
To: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
Cc: Zsh Users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: why is eval needed?
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2022 15:43:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAN=4vMpXpq=Bk0KeZwE3Uz=QVZ0MBeLQ6Gw7_a51BHSyf+Haag@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d0ef2035-e8e9-00c5-7f53-b16609d96262@eastlink.ca>

On Sat, Nov 19, 2022 at 3:35 PM Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca> wrote:
>
>  In a script:
>
> local level='-L 2'
> tree $level

With the default options this this the same as this:

    tree '-L 2'

Is it clear why it doesn't work?

Roman.


  reply	other threads:[~2022-11-19 14:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-11-19 14:34 Ray Andrews
2022-11-19 14:43 ` Roman Perepelitsa [this message]
2022-11-19 17:02   ` Ray Andrews
2022-11-19 17:10     ` Roman Perepelitsa
2022-11-19 18:02     ` Clinton Bunch
2022-11-19 18:18       ` Roman Perepelitsa
2022-11-19 16:48 ` Stephane Chazelas
2022-11-19 19:12   ` Ray Andrews
2022-11-19 19:50     ` Lawrence Velázquez
2022-11-19 22:21       ` Ray Andrews
2022-11-20  8:55         ` Stephane Chazelas
2022-11-20 13:47           ` Ray Andrews
2022-11-20 15:08             ` Stephane Chazelas
2022-11-20 16:27               ` Ray Andrews
2022-11-20 20:16                 ` Stephane Chazelas
2022-11-20 22:31                   ` Bart Schaefer
2022-11-21  2:13                     ` Ray Andrews
2022-11-20 22:47                   ` Ray Andrews

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