From: Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de>
To: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: ${...%%=*} problem
Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 09:02:20 +0200 (MET DST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200106070702.JAA24159@beta.informatik.hu-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000601c0ef1c$fa138580$21c9ca95@mow.siemens.ru>
Andrej Borsenkow wrote:
> bor@itsrm2% print ${foo%%=*}
> zsh: * not found
>
> Why?
Because it does expansion, include the one after an equal sign:
% echo =*
zsh: * not found
Yeah, I know, this seems silly, and I had to learn that the hard way,
too (when starting with the completion system I sometimes forgot to
quote that `=' with a backslash...).
Bye
Sven
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Sven Wischnowsky wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-06-07 7:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-06-07 6:42 Andrej Borsenkow
2001-06-07 7:02 ` Sven Wischnowsky [this message]
2001-06-07 7:29 ` Andrej Borsenkow
2001-06-07 14:58 ` Bart Schaefer
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