From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29214 invoked by alias); 2 Oct 2012 18:39:40 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@zsh.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes List-Id: Zsh Users List List-Post: List-Help: X-Seq: 17309 Received: (qmail 22420 invoked from network); 2 Oct 2012 18:39:38 -0000 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on f.primenet.com.au X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,T_DKIM_INVALID autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 Received-SPF: pass (ns1.primenet.com.au: SPF record at spf-00082601.pphosted.com designates 67.231.145.42 as permitted sender) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=fb.com; h=from : to : subject : date : message-id : in-reply-to : content-type : content-id : content-transfer-encoding : mime-version; s=facebook; bh=Q0RFwcZvGxjbMHD/EnFerYLt+x4yYgzyax8t6aucKyk=; b=qLQBx73xOZT6XSliE6JyqINLU7lS7siUi5QHwKpLoRWWitjKIp49r5KGY+p5plRhG2AN X0Ze9qZtRTU6YPIBa28n4tYBV5rC4B0wc7kNxuTxqyEHdujJDOqIJ7U2ppeQYG3+5AzZ ut2sJ7CcgPqEtzYQTyN2qttiVJIIS8fVQlE= From: Larry Schrof To: Peter Stephenson , "zsh-users@zsh.org" Subject: Re: Bug / error in manpage. Thread-Topic: Bug / error in manpage. Thread-Index: AQHNn//GKajF7pQVzUGqlU64C195lJemg6aAgABLFAD//4vGgA== Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2012 18:39:31 +0000 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20121002193526.264715c0@pws-pc.ntlworld.com> Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: x-originating-ip: [192.168.18.254] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <27663E582C9516429BF297E4CECD0C58@fb.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Reason: safe X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10432:5.7.7855,1.0.431,0.0.0000 definitions=2012-10-02_04:2012-10-02,2012-10-02,1970-01-01 signatures=0 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" wrote: >On Tue, 02 Oct 2012 07:06:43 -0700 >Bart Schaefer 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: > >[ >Before returned false, now says > >zsh: no such file or directory: [ >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. > >--=20 >Peter Stephenson >Web page now at http://homepage.ntlworld.com/p.w.stephenson/