From: Roman Perepelitsa <roman.perepelitsa@gmail.com>
To: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
Cc: Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com>,
Zsh Users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: Unexpected results
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2022 22:56:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAN=4vMrPTSFnjuR_NmKZdt9Y_mAyFVYC4z-Dxh-+rh-+PtxsAg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH+w=7aiyJxe6i=AtKKO2Rt4j2Qb7n0pBtqqogz8GsrR2QvbMg@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 10:52 PM Bart Schaefer
<schaefer@brasslantern.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 7:01 AM Peter Stephenson
> <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> >
> > The :h modifier on history is pretty brutal, yes. We store the
> > full history word internally, but a "history word" is before the
> > lexical analyser has got to work, i.e. the raw expression with
> > quotes in it. What you want is that word after it's been
> > processed internally.
>
> echo !:1:Q:h:q
>
> perhaps?
It expands to this:
echo 'a/path' 'with' 'spaces/in'
Instead of this:
echo 'a/path with spaces/in'
Roman.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-08-22 20:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-08-22 13:16 Perry Smith
2022-08-22 14:01 ` Peter Stephenson
2022-08-22 20:51 ` Bart Schaefer
2022-08-22 20:56 ` Roman Perepelitsa [this message]
2022-08-22 21:07 ` Bart Schaefer
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