From: Pier Paolo Grassi <pierpaolog@gmail.com> To: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com> Cc: Vin Shelton <acs@alumni.princeton.edu>, Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com>, Zsh-Users List <zsh-users@zsh.org> Subject: Re: Most Recent File Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2021 02:24:04 +0200 [thread overview] Message-ID: <CAP+y1xC3Dx74sBaCf8mgmEcOMh+hUH6zAdt236k=JTjw4-cBqQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw) In-Reply-To: <CAH+w=7Zhj_+3jaDQLvx5Y6mCwb0T7QV6x+yygaZm84hacez5cQ@mail.gmail.com> [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 1384 bytes --] >That doesn't work because if one of the file names has a newline in >it, (f) will split it into two words. (Also I think you left out an >open paren.) sorry about that, I haven't ever considered newlines in filenames, since I wouldn't put them in the first place. Of course that's not to say that cannot happen anyway, of course. And yes, it should have been: ls "${(f)$(recent 3)}" thanks for catching that Pier Paolo Grassi Il giorno dom 24 ott 2021 alle ore 00:42 Bart Schaefer < schaefer@brasslantern.com> ha scritto: > On Sat, Oct 23, 2021 at 1:57 PM Pier Paolo Grassi <pierpaolog@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > and use it like this: > > > > ls "${(f)$recent 3)}" > > That doesn't work because if one of the file names has a newline in > it, (f) will split it into two words. (Also I think you left out an > open paren.) > > print -lr -- ${(q)f} > > and then > > eval ls -ld $(recent 3) > > seems to be the closest thing. > > > Il giorno sab 23 ott 2021 alle ore 22:44 Vin Shelton < > acs@alumni.princeton.edu> ha scritto: > >> > >> What am I doing wrong? Does quoting not work correctly in captured > output? > > The trouble is that "ls" doesn't interpret the quoting, when $(...) > preserves it. So you have to emit the quotes in a form that the shell > can interpret, and then use "eval" to make that happen. > > For extra safety, you could use ${(qqqq)f} instead. > [-- Attachment #2: Type: text/html, Size: 2284 bytes --]
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-10-24 0:25 UTC|newest] Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top 2021-10-23 16:15 Vin Shelton 2021-10-23 16:43 ` Dominik Vogt 2021-10-23 16:58 ` Peter Stephenson 2021-10-23 17:24 ` Dominik Vogt 2021-10-23 17:32 ` Peter Stephenson 2021-10-23 18:39 ` Bart Schaefer 2021-10-23 19:07 ` Vin Shelton 2021-10-23 19:26 ` Bart Schaefer 2021-10-23 20:43 ` Vin Shelton 2021-10-23 20:56 ` Pier Paolo Grassi 2021-10-23 22:42 ` Bart Schaefer 2021-10-24 0:24 ` Pier Paolo Grassi [this message] 2021-10-24 0:32 ` Paul 2021-10-24 1:45 ` Dominik Vogt 2021-10-24 7:22 ` Roman Perepelitsa 2021-10-25 19:45 ` Disabling null elision (was: Re: Most Recent File) Daniel Shahaf 2021-10-25 20:02 ` Roman Perepelitsa 2021-10-25 20:41 ` Daniel Shahaf 2021-10-25 21:00 ` Ray Andrews 2021-10-25 21:09 ` Bart Schaefer 2021-10-25 21:05 ` Bart Schaefer 2021-10-25 21:20 ` Roman Perepelitsa 2021-10-25 20:05 ` Bart Schaefer 2021-10-24 1:37 ` Most Recent File Dominik Vogt 2021-10-23 16:47 ` david rayner 2021-10-23 16:54 ` Vin Shelton 2021-10-23 16:51 ` david rayner
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