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Subject: Re: Strange behaviour in zsh-2.5.03
From: bas@phys.uva.nl (Bas V. de Bakker)
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Sverre Slotte <sverre@research.nokia.com> writes:

>                     passthru="$passthru $1"
                                         ^
It's this space that gets in the way.  The passthru variable will
consist of the filename with a space added to the end, which makes a
new filename that does not exist.  Similarly, if you have more files,
they will all become a single argument in the following command, being
interpreted as a single file name.

>         command lpr -P${printer} ${passthru}    # this doesn't work!

As long as you don't have filenames which themselves contain
whitespace, replacing ${passthru} with ${=passthru} should do the job,
as this will split the variable into different words.

Hope this helps.

Bas.