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From: zzapper <david@tvis.co.uk>
To: zsh-users@sunsite.dk
Subject: Simple Tip of the Day
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 20:38:16 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <dfnuo1160g88dl9rd0pig04k6enf7fqpr6@4ax.com> (raw)

Hi,

It can be very useful to set a "marker" variable when you are copying/comparing files in complicated
and different paths

eg in directory

>cd /xx/yy/ggg/ccc/
type
>S=`pwd`

Then from anywhere else you can type

>cp $S/somefile<TAB> .

Where the <TAB> indicates that all of zsh's completions work


A useful alias to automate this

alias SRC='S=`pwd`;echo "S=$S"'
-- 
zzapper
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             reply	other threads:[~2005-12-01 20:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-01 20:38 zzapper [this message]
2005-12-02  1:09 ` Vincent Lefevre
2005-12-02  9:13   ` Thorsten Kampe
2005-12-02 12:49     ` Mikael Magnusson
2005-12-02 19:20       ` zzapper
2005-12-03 20:28         ` zzapper
2005-12-03 22:08           ` Mikael Magnusson
2005-12-03 22:20             ` zzapper
2005-12-04  0:24               ` compinit security (Re: Simple Tip of the Day) Bart Schaefer
2005-12-04  1:32               ` Simple Tip of the Day Mikael Magnusson
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-11-30 20:32 Simple Tip of The Day zzapper
2005-11-30 23:27 ` Przemyslaw Gawronski
2005-10-28 11:11 Simple Tip of the Day zzapper
2005-10-28 11:32 ` Jean Chalard
2005-10-28 15:25   ` Bart Schaefer
2005-10-28 17:40     ` Jean Chalard
2005-10-28 15:53   ` zzapper
2005-10-28 11:47 ` Hannu Koivisto
2005-10-28 12:26   ` Nikolai Weibull
2005-10-29 12:37   ` Konstantin Sobolev
2005-10-29 14:52     ` Christian Taylor
2005-10-28 20:08 ` DervishD
2005-10-30  5:10 ` Philippe Troin
2005-11-01 16:58   ` Vincent Lefevre

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