From: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: better grammar with $#
Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2022 10:49:59 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b8f29270-e8fc-4492-5b51-9d26a5ae87e7@eastlink.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAN=4vMq2iJCUvWmSjp5ZsF+ETRrv6WN7qYapoeToSq3f=63A=w@mail.gmail.com>
On 2022-10-30 10:29, Roman Perepelitsa wrote:
>
> You can combine the two expansions:
>
> linecount=${#${(f)output}}
Nuts, I came close I tried: $#{${(f)output}}
If you can replace the `find` command with a glob, it'll be simpler.
Yeah, I'm migrating in that direction already.
> You'll also avoid quoting issues. If your code is supposed to handle
> all sorts of file names, make sure it can handle files with backslash
> and line feed in their names.
God knows. I tend to crash into problems like that when they happen and
deal with it at the time. I wish there was some option to protect
strings from all such issues, all the time, everywhere.
>
> Roman.
>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-10-30 17:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-10-30 14:16 Ray Andrews
2022-10-30 17:21 ` Philippe Troin
2022-10-30 17:29 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2022-10-30 17:49 ` Ray Andrews [this message]
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