From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6617 invoked from network); 13 Mar 2004 03:29:32 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 13 Mar 2004 03:29:32 -0000 Received: (qmail 10441 invoked by alias); 13 Mar 2004 03:29:14 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 7165 Received: (qmail 10400 invoked from network); 13 Mar 2004 03:29:13 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO sunsite.dk) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 13 Mar 2004 03:29:13 -0000 X-MessageWall-Score: 0 (sunsite.dk) Received: from [80.91.224.249] by sunsite.dk (MessageWall 1.0.8) with SMTP; 13 Mar 2004 3:29:13 -0000 Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B1zpp-0005Et-00 for ; Sat, 13 Mar 2004 04:29:13 +0100 Received: from isi-dialin-129-170.isionline-dialin.de ([195.158.129.170]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 13 Mar 2004 04:29:13 +0100 Received: from thorsten by isi-dialin-129-170.isionline-dialin.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 13 Mar 2004 04:29:13 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: zsh-users@sunsite.dk From: Thorsten Kampe Subject: named directory expansion on strings Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 04:29:08 +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: isi-dialin-129-170.isionline-dialin.de User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.10.1de Sender: news Is there a way to perform "named directory" expansion on strings? Something like "autonamedirs" and the "%~" in the prompt... % file=/etc/foo % ETCDIR=/etc % echo `bar#!$whatever($file)` ~ETCDIR/foo % Thorsten