From: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: How to delete .*.~undo-tree~ files?
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2024 11:28:10 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cfbff5cf-5f0b-4f24-bec4-a1a8640ee67c@eastlink.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAA=-s3wDAH5yn=vzR=V5WndAaFp3T+UiyETZCOGy2LasGOpBhQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On 2024-06-12 10:46, Mark J. Reed wrote:
>
> Which ties back into those expectations from other languages that Marc
> mentioned. It's important to remember that, unlike in those languages,
> quotation marks are not token delimiters in the shell. They don't
> terminate the current shell /word/ (what other languages would just
> call a "string"); you can go in and out of quotes, switch kinds of
> quotes, etc. as often as you like within a single word.
>
> So .*.'~undo-tree~' is still just one string, even though only part of
> it is in quotation marks. The part in quotes is not subject to glob
> expansion; the part not in quotes is.
Pure curiosity, I have no problem to solve, but supposing you did want
to break the string up, I suppose you'd have to use an array? Then
perhaps manipulate the elements/words as desired, then recombine?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-06-12 18:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-06-12 10:04 Denis Bitouzé
2024-06-12 11:30 ` Marc Chantreux
2024-06-12 12:20 ` Denis Bitouzé
2024-06-12 12:25 ` Andreas Kähäri
2024-06-12 12:50 ` Denis Bitouzé
2024-06-12 17:46 ` Mark J. Reed
2024-06-12 18:28 ` Ray Andrews [this message]
2024-06-12 18:48 ` Bart Schaefer
2024-06-12 21:13 ` Ray Andrews
2024-06-12 13:11 ` Marc Chantreux
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