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>
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>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.
>
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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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