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Re: Printing arrays for use with $()

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From: Wayne Davison <wayned@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Zsh Users <zsh-users@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Printing arrays for use with $()
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 19:07:48 -0700
In-reply-to: <20050811222847.GA341@DervishD>
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On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 12:28:47AM +0200, DervishD wrote:
>     The thing is that the 'printf' command prints the file names
> exactly as I want them, within double quotes, but 'command' see those
> double quotes... quoted. Any way of avoiding this?

That's what "eval" is for -- it will re-evaluate the string, and the
quotes will affect how the string is parsed into a command:

    eval "command" $(printf '"%s" ' $array)

..wayne..

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