From: Zefram <zefram@tao.co.uk>
To: borsenkow.msk@sni.de (Andrej Borsenkow)
Cc: zefram@tao.co.uk, zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: Completion bug with `pwd`?
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 15:44:02 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199806231444.PAA11116@taos.demon.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <027101bd9eb2$ac90f3f0$21c9ca95@mow.sni.de> from "Andrej Borsenkow" at Jun 23, 98 06:24:45 pm
Andrej Borsenkow wrote:
>What is the correct way to do the above? (There are several commands which
>insists on having the absolute pathname).
Use "$PWD" or "~+" instead of "`pwd`". It is possible to perform pathname
completion leaving pathname expansions and parameter expansions in the
word, where command substitutions must be expanded. It also saves a
process (and some time) and avoids the ambiguity of command substitution.
-zefram
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-06-23 14:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-06-23 14:24 Andrej Borsenkow
1998-06-23 14:44 ` Zefram [this message]
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1998-06-23 13:52 Andrej Borsenkow
1998-06-23 14:16 ` Zefram
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