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Re: Parameter expansion

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From: r.hooft@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Rob Hooft)
To: zsh-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Parameter expansion
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 08:20:29 +0200 (MZT)
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>>>>> "BS" == Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

 BS> On Mar 31, 6:04pm, Mircea Damian wrote: } Subject: Re: Parameter
 BS> expansion } } On Wed, Mar 31, 1999 at 02:54:01PM +0000, Geoff
 BS> Wing wrote: } > Mircea Damian <dmircea@xxxxxxxx> typed: } > :zip
 BS> backup.zip $(<index.txt) } > } > zip backup.zip $(eval echo
 BS> $(<index.txt))

 BS> eval zip backup.zip $(<index.txt)

 BS> zip backup.zip ${~$(<index.txt)}

I understand this is a zsh mailinglist, but I find the shell-independent

  xargs zip backup.zip < index.txt

more readable, and it gracefully handles the case where index.txt is too
long for the command line....

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