From: "Lawrence Velázquez" <vq@larryv.me>
To: Patrick Reader <_@pxeger.com>
Cc: zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: Re: `repeat` with special characters - "bad math expression: illegal character"
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2021 14:41:21 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7C9E4288-15C7-4419-86BF-E0F5DFD7EAC1@larryv.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0102017730be053e-9eccbdb4-1596-4ae7-8bee-5f2005229b83-000000@eu-west-1.amazonses.com>
> On Jan 23, 2021, at 2:34 PM, Patrick Reader <_@pxeger.com> wrote:
>
>> Could you provide an example?
>
> Compare
>
> repeat 2*3 echo six
>
> vs.
>
> repeat "2*3" echo six
>
> or
>
> repeat '2*3' echo six
>
> or
>
> repeat 2\*3 echo six
>
> or
>
> repeat 6 echo six
I don't know why you didn't send this to the list.
vq
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-23 19:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-23 18:11 Patrick Reader
2021-01-23 19:33 ` Lawrence Velázquez
[not found] ` <0102017730be053e-9eccbdb4-1596-4ae7-8bee-5f2005229b83-000000@eu-west-1.amazonses.com>
2021-01-23 19:41 ` Lawrence Velázquez [this message]
2021-01-23 20:47 ` Bart Schaefer
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