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Re: Running command in environment variable with space

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From: Michael Schaap <zsh@xxxxxxxxx>
To: zsh-users@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Running command in environment variable with space
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 18:34:58 +0100
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At 18:14 12-3-2002, Vincent Lefevre wrote:

On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 18:07:47 +0100, Michael Schaap wrote:
> I'm not sure if this is a bug or a feature, but is there a way to run a
> command with options specified in one environment variable?

Try $=blah


Thanks, that does the trick.

(This also pointed me to SH_WORD_SPLIT, which is what I was looking for,but missed the first time I looked through the zshoptions manpage. (No,really!))


 - Michael

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- Running command in environment variable with space
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- Re: Running command in environment variable with space
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