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From: Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de>
Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 09:02:20 +0200 (MET DST)
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To: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: ${...%%=*} problem
In-Reply-To: <000601c0ef1c$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