From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (list@euclid.skiles.gatech.edu [130.207.146.50]) by melb.werple.net.au (8.7.5/8.7.3/2) with ESMTP id BAA10167 for ; Tue, 18 Jun 1996 01:25:37 +1000 (EST) Received: (from list@localhost) by euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA14145; Mon, 17 Jun 1996 11:17:06 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1996 11:17:06 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199606171516.LAA08072@Lyapunov.McRCIM.McGill.EDU> X-Authentication-Warning: Lyapunov.McRCIM.McGill.EDU: peta owned process doing -bs X-Authentication-Warning: Lyapunov.McRCIM.McGill.EDU: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu (Zsh hackers list) Subject: Re: <> redirection operator (was: zsh.texi) In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 17 Jun 1996 15:56:04 +0200." <199606171356.PAA12683@hydra.ifh.de> Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1996 11:16:38 -0400 From: Peter Whaite Resent-Message-ID: <"40dqv.0.xS3.oRNnn"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1360 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu Peter Stephenson said: > hzoli@cs.elte.hu wrote: > > I decided: in beta21, <> will always do redirection. > > This is a big enough change it should go on zsh-announce to see what > the punters think. Yeah. '<->' is a bit cumbersome. Too bad '#' means something else. One thing that isnt clear to me. Is this change just for scripts (everyone keeps talking about scripts)? Is it intended that '<>' still means numeric glob in interactive mode? > Just in case you wanted to know, I have had scripts with this in in > the past. It's very convenient for managing sets of data files. That > may have been in the days when I didn't automatically write everything > in perl. You bet. And for managing mh directories. However all these are things I do in interactive mode. Having to use '<->' in a script is fine.