From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8527 invoked by alias); 25 Jan 2017 05:40:22 -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: 22424 Received: (qmail 21371 invoked from network); 25 Jan 2017 05:40:22 -0000 X-Qmail-Scanner-Diagnostics: from mta01.eastlink.ca by f.primenet.com.au (envelope-from , uid 7791) with qmail-scanner-2.11 (clamdscan: 0.99.2/21882. spamassassin: 3.4.1. Clear:RC:0(24.224.136.30):SA:0(-3.9/5.0):. Processed in 0.703482 secs); 25 Jan 2017 05:40:22 -0000 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.1 (2015-04-28) on f.primenet.com.au X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.9 required=5.0 tests=RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW, RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_PASS autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.1 X-Envelope-From: rayandrews@eastlink.ca X-Qmail-Scanner-Mime-Attachments: | X-Qmail-Scanner-Zip-Files: | Received-SPF: pass (ns1.primenet.com.au: SPF record at _spf.eastlink.ca designates 24.224.136.30 as permitted sender) X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.2 cv=DOfN2GFb c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=28Ntk8jg+Dho8ABWn/CRtA==:117 a=28Ntk8jg+Dho8ABWn/CRtA==:17 a=N659UExz7-8A:10 a=JZj96RNBCz_m4-FtOmgA:9 a=pILNOxqGKmIA:10 X-EL-IP-NOAUTH: 24.207.16.108 Subject: Re: Avoiding the zshells intelligence...in one case To: zsh-users@zsh.org References: <20170122080153.GA5042@solfire> <213742a3-d208-973d-3b86-1ac29b9d96dd@eastlink.ca> <2f69cfec-46e2-1a93-101d-fb0579d0637f@gmx.com> <864415b1-bb85-8b61-1f2e-ae811802fafe@eastlink.ca> From: Ray Andrews Message-id: Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 21:40:17 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/45.6.0 MIME-version: 1.0 In-reply-to: Content-type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit On 24/01/17 07:46 PM, Bart Schaefer wrote: > On Tue, 24 Jan 2017, Ray Andrews wrote: > >> But you can single quote, no? > Of course, but I thought this whole discussion was about turning other > things off so that you didn't need quotes. > Sorta, but if one method is possible then an option would work too, it's simply another method of transmitting an instruction. And ... you said that 'eval' strips quotes? I use eval to re-expand globs and just a while back you showed me another way so ...maybe all my grief comes from 'eval' and that's where I keep losing quotation?? Nuts.