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From: Zoltan Hidvegi <hzoli@cs.elte.hu>
To: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu (Zsh hacking and development)
Subject: <> redirection operator (was: zsh.texi)
Date: Sun, 16 Jun 1996 00:08:33 +0200 (MET DST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <199606152208.AAA03465@hzoli.ppp.cs.elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <27748.199606150744@stone.dcs.warwick.ac.uk> from Zefram at "Jun 15, 96 08:44:05 am"

Zefram wrote:
> >I'd like to implement <> redirection as well which is often quite useful
> >and it is required by POSIX as well.  When not in sh/ksh mode <> will only
> >be recocnized as a redirection if it is delimited from the word before and
> >after it or if it is immediately preceeded by a digit.  E.g.
> 
> I think actually <> should *always* do redirection.  The glob syntax,
> <->, is only one charater longer.

I agree with that but I'm afraid that this change will break many scripts.
But it would be definitely simpler and cleaner, and the documentation would
be much simpler and less confusing.

Zoltan



  reply	other threads:[~1996-06-16  0:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1996-06-10 15:52 zsh.texi Clive Messer
1996-06-10 16:17 ` zsh.texi Hrvoje Niksic
1996-06-10 16:39 ` zsh.texi Zoltan Hidvegi
1996-06-10 19:01   ` zsh.texi Clive Messer
1996-06-13  5:25 ` zsh.texi Mark Borges
1996-06-13  6:26   ` zsh.texi Bart Schaefer
1996-06-13 13:49     ` zsh.texi Clive Messer
1996-06-13 15:30       ` zsh.texi Bart Schaefer
1996-06-13 17:19       ` zsh.texi Mark Borges
1996-06-13  6:55   ` zsh.texi Bart Schaefer
1996-06-15  1:53     ` zsh.texi Zoltan Hidvegi
1996-06-15  7:44       ` zsh.texi Zefram
1996-06-15 22:08         ` Zoltan Hidvegi [this message]
1996-06-16 13:23           ` <> redirection operator (was: zsh.texi) Zefram
1996-06-17 13:10             ` Zoltan Hidvegi
1996-06-17 13:56               ` Peter Stephenson
1996-06-17 15:16                 ` Peter Whaite
1996-06-13  7:18   ` zsh.texi Bart Schaefer

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