From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18729 invoked from network); 5 May 2005 22:04:47 -0000 Received: from news.dotsrc.org (HELO a.mx.sunsite.dk) (130.225.247.88) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 5 May 2005 22:04:47 -0000 Received: (qmail 27591 invoked from network); 5 May 2005 22:04:41 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by a.mx.sunsite.dk with SMTP; 5 May 2005 22:04:41 -0000 Received: (qmail 26587 invoked by alias); 5 May 2005 22:04:33 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 8777 Received: (qmail 26568 invoked from network); 5 May 2005 22:04:32 -0000 Received: from news.dotsrc.org (HELO a.mx.sunsite.dk) (130.225.247.88) by sunsite.dk with SMTP; 5 May 2005 22:04:32 -0000 Received: (qmail 26519 invoked from network); 5 May 2005 22:04:32 -0000 Received: from main.gmane.org (HELO ciao.gmane.org) (80.91.229.2) by a.mx.sunsite.dk with SMTP; 5 May 2005 22:04:28 -0000 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1DToL4-00017G-Jc for zsh-users@sunsite.dk; Thu, 05 May 2005 23:56:58 +0200 Received: from 241.119-84-212.ippool.ndo.com ([212.84.119.241]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 05 May 2005 23:56:58 +0200 Received: from david by 241.119-84-212.ippool.ndo.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 05 May 2005 23:56:58 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: zsh-users@sunsite.dk From: zzapper Subject: Passing parameters completely untouched Date: Thu, 05 May 2005 23:02:42 +0100 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 241.119-84-212.ippool.ndo.com X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 2.0/32.652 Sender: news X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2 on a.mx.sunsite.dk X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=6.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.0.2 X-Spam-Hits: -2.6 Hi, In the same family as previous posting I want to be able to pass a string with backquotes w/o them being interpreted eg > convert_path "c:\aaa\fred\file.txt" now I KNOW I can do > convert_path "c:\\aaa\\fred\\file.txt" I guess I know that it's impossible (for any shell) -- zzapper vim -c ":%s%s*%Cyrnfr)fcbafbe[Oenz(Zbbyranne%|:%s)[[()])-)Ig|norm Vg?" http://www.rayninfo.co.uk/tips/ vim, zsh & success tips