From: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: avoid eval?
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2018 19:13:54 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e4c25a58-1089-cdba-3e70-d8cce39bbc8d@eastlink.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a0405ea7-5ebf-c893-09bc-74fd3b8e0de0@eastlink.ca>
On 11/03/18 05:43 PM, Ray Andrews wrote:
> On 11/03/18 03:53 PM, Marc Chantreux wrote:
>> "$@" expands as an array and "$*" expands as a string so
>> func () cp oldfile "$*"
>>
>>
> Thanks so it does. I tried that and 50 other ideas. I just now
> realized it was because I had $IFS=$'\n'
>
> set in another function :-( Cost me half the day.
>
Is there any way to immunize my functions against $IFS trouble? I have
functions that seem to require " $IFS=$'\n' " and others that insist on
" $IFS=' ' ". It would be nice if I didn't have to reset it in each
function. I'll bet there will be syntax that always does the right
thing regardless of $IFS.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-03-13 2:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-11 20:48 Ray Andrews
2018-03-11 22:53 ` Marc Chantreux
2018-03-12 0:43 ` Ray Andrews
2018-03-13 2:13 ` Ray Andrews [this message]
2018-03-13 2:17 ` Eric Cook
2018-03-13 16:36 ` (some tips about variables) " Marc Chantreux
2018-03-13 17:50 ` Ray Andrews
2018-03-13 20:39 ` Marc Chantreux
2018-03-13 21:50 ` Ray Andrews
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