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From: mason@primenet.com.au (Geoff Wing)
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Subject: Re: Parameter expansion
Date: 1 Apr 1999 07:30:52 GMT
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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.

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