From: Larry Schrof <larrys@fb.com>
To: Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com>,
"zsh-users@zsh.org" <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: Bug / error in manpage.
Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2012 18:39:31 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CC9082BE.9606%larrys@fb.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121002193526.264715c0@pws-pc.ntlworld.com>
Agreed - I was thinking it was probably a matter of time before one of you
came
up with a good example.
Are you thinking mentioning angle-brackets needing special quoting, or are
you thinking about just removing mention of them from that section of
the manpage?
On 10/2/12 11:35 AM, "Peter Stephenson" <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com>
wrote:
>On Tue, 02 Oct 2012 07:06:43 -0700
>Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com> wrote:
>> What PWS's patch does, in effect, is arrange that [ ] will quote the
>> redirection operators so you no longer need to explicitly quote them in
>> that particular context. This is probably breaking some rule or other
>> of POSIX shell syntax but I can't immediately come up with any example
>> where it will matter.
>
>Here's one:
>
>[</dev/null ]
>
>Before returned false, now says
>
>zsh: no such file or directory: [</dev/null
>
>That looks likes something of a dealbreaker; there's no simple
>syntactic distinction between that and the cases that we'd like to work.
>It might be better just to document the limitations.
>
>--
>Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com>
>Web page now at http://homepage.ntlworld.com/p.w.stephenson/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-02 18:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-01 18:08 Larry Schrof
2012-10-02 11:57 ` Peter Stephenson
2012-10-02 14:06 ` Bart Schaefer
2012-10-02 17:40 ` Larry Schrof
2012-10-02 18:35 ` Peter Stephenson
2012-10-02 18:39 ` Larry Schrof [this message]
2012-10-02 20:00 ` Peter Stephenson
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