From: Roman Perepelitsa <roman.perepelitsa@gmail.com>
To: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
Cc: Zsh Users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: question mark in filename.
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2021 08:02:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAN=4vMpjAzui04sEP5SsXDfqnJjF8Jt0Oir0qUsWzXAojy3snQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d720a4ef-d2b6-51b4-d6a6-98b583338621@eastlink.ca>
On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 5:50 AM Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca> wrote:
>
> Not that there should ever be such a thing, but I was curious: I throw
> strings around mostly successfully but not with the stupid question mark:
>
>
> function test1 ()
> {
> input=( "$@" ) # 'input' is fine: "ls s,7*"
> eval $input # this works fine.
> output=( $(eval ${()input}) )
> print "$output" # ... but 'output' looses the question
> marks.
> }
>
> function test2 ()
> {
> string="ls s,7*" # 'ls' finds: 's,7,big?improvements?in?code'
> test1 $string
> }
>
> $ . test; test2
> s,7,big?improvements?in?code
> s,7,big improvements in code
My guess is that the name of this file contains something interesting
in place of question marks (ascii 63). Try this:
ls s,7* | cat -v
print -r -- s,7* | od -t x1 -An -v
Roman.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-10 7:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-10 4:49 Ray Andrews
2021-01-10 5:39 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2021-01-10 5:46 ` Ray Andrews
2021-01-10 6:06 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2021-01-10 6:21 ` Ray Andrews
2021-01-10 7:02 ` Roman Perepelitsa [this message]
2021-01-10 15:03 ` Ray Andrews
2021-01-10 15:28 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2021-01-10 15:55 ` Ray Andrews
2021-01-10 16:32 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2021-01-10 20:57 ` Ray Andrews
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