From: mason@primenet.com.au (Geoff Wing)
To: zsh-users@sunsite.auc.dk
Subject: Re: Parameter expansion
Date: 1 Apr 1999 07:30:52 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <slrn7g685c.6v8.mason@coral.primenet.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <14083.4141.374266.213229@octopus.chem.uu.nl>
Rob Hooft <r.hooft@euromail.net> typed:
:>>>>> "BS" == Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com> writes:
: BS> On Mar 31, 6:04pm, Mircea Damian wrote: } Subject: Re: Parameter
: BS> expansion } } On Wed, Mar 31, 1999 at 02:54:01PM +0000, Geoff
: BS> Wing wrote: } > Mircea Damian <dmircea@kappa.ro> typed: } > :zip
: BS> backup.zip $(<index.txt) } > } > zip backup.zip $(eval echo
: BS> $(<index.txt))
: BS> eval zip backup.zip $(<index.txt)
: BS> zip backup.zip ${~$(<index.txt)}
:I understand this is a zsh mailinglist, but I find the shell-independent
: xargs zip backup.zip < index.txt
:more readable, and it gracefully handles the case where index.txt is too
:long for the command line....
Yep, though Bart's example ``zip backup.zip ${~$(<index.txt)}'' handles
the case where names have spaces in them.
Regards,
--
Geoff Wing <gcw@pobox.com> Mobile : (Australia) 0412 162 441
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-04-01 7:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-03-31 14:35 Mircea Damian
1999-03-31 14:54 ` Geoff Wing
1999-03-31 15:04 ` Mircea Damian
1999-03-31 15:51 ` Bart Schaefer
1999-04-01 6:20 ` Rob Hooft
1999-04-01 7:30 ` Geoff Wing [this message]
1999-04-01 7:33 ` Bart Schaefer
1999-05-17 9:39 Roland Jesse
1999-05-17 9:23 ` Peter Stephenson
2017-08-13 22:58 Parameter Expansion Clint Priest
2017-08-13 23:51 ` Bart Schaefer
2017-08-14 0:07 ` Bart Schaefer
2017-08-14 1:16 ` Clint Priest
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