Re: expansion after =?

[Seth Kurtzberg <seth@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2 Jul 2003 12:36:23 -0500
Dan Nelson <dnelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> In the last episode (Jul 02), Seth Kurtzberg said:
> > Hello list,
> > 
> > Is there a configuration parameter or option that enables path
> > completion after equals, for example, export ENVVAR=/some/path/name? 
> > I've been using zsh for some months now, and this is the only thing
> > that bash does that I find missing in zsh.  But perhaps the behavior
> > can be turned on in some way?
> 
> Try two equals signs, one for the assignment, and one for path
> expansion.
> 
> dan% PAGER==less
> dan% echo $PAGER
> /usr/bin/less
> dan%
> 
> It's documented under FILENAME EXPANSION:
> 
>        If  a  word  begins  with  an  unquoted `=' and the EQUALS
>        option is set, the remainder of the word is taken  as  the
>        name  of  a command or alias.  If a command exists by that
>        name, the word is replaced by the  full  pathname  of  the
>        command.   If  an  alias  exists by that name, the word is
>        replaced with the text of the alias.

Thanks much.  I did look in the docs but somehow I missed it.

> 
> I didn't even know bash could do path expansion.

It doesn't do it nearly as well as zsh, but it does manage to more or less do it.  But I would never go back to bash after using zsh.

> 
> -- 
> 	Dan Nelson
> 	dnelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 


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