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charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.28.5-0ubuntu0.18.04.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-CMAE-Envelope: MS4wfAoZ7fMko+nHSy7iwiQAS0spyGxrkyMVAJh5HM4pzZxeYCZ9W3NbpOwAURNCvuWu74BIAqJAzDNmMO0l4ADKXs/9kRUqq3DnymHzRVLEzkUtHPdgkr8x B+fOjWxk8YO4sOUyEoHWRrwldUhF3ehkW3YlYlGKQi1FT62vGJ8hJnFO X-Seq: 26479 Archived-At: X-Loop: zsh-users@zsh.org Errors-To: zsh-users-owner@zsh.org Precedence: list Precedence: bulk Sender: zsh-users-request@zsh.org X-no-archive: yes List-Id: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Owner: List-Archive: Archived-At: On Tue, 2021-02-09 at 12:42 -0800, Ray Andrews wrote: > grep allow multiple filespecs of course, and if there are spaces they > have to be quoted naturally: > > $ grep 'some string' filename 'filename with spaces' more_files* > > My wrapper around grep has a problem with that tho because when I'm > grabbing the filespecs if I do something like this: > > while [[ -n "$1" ]]; do > ffilespec+=" $1" > shift > done This is what arrays are for. unsetopt shwordsplit # leave poor unsuspecting spaces alone filespec=() while [[ -n $1 ]]; do filespec+=($1) shift done In this case, actually, all you're doing is the equivalent of a single array assignment. filespec=("$@") pws