Re: question mark in filename.

[Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>]

On 2021-01-10 7:28 a.m., Roman Perepelitsa wrote:
> It does that only when stdout is a tty. The output in this mode has
> been improved recently. Here's what I get:
>
>    % ls
>    's,7,big'$'\n''improvements'$'\n''in'$'\n''code'$'\n'
That's a whole lot more honest.  A linefeed is not a question mark. This 
can be put to bed now, but if I had one remaining question it is why (or 
how) I might have protected the rogue characters.  As I mentioned I 
tried ' ${(q)input} ' and variations because  that seems to swallow most 
things and I was suspicious.  Nevermind.
>    % ls | cat
>    s,7,big
>    improvements
>    in
>    code
Yeah, after I captured the output to a variable, that's exactly what it 
wanted to show and of course now I know that's exactly what it should 
show.  Linefeeds are linefeeds.

> That's just the output of `ls` when stdout is a tty.
Ok, so 'eval' is innocent of all this.  As usual the man page is less 
than helpful, they could mention all this and save us all the trouble.