Re: Bug / error in manpage.

[Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Oct 1,  6:08pm, Larry Schrof wrote:
}
} The man page for subscripting flags is incorrect. Here is the excerpt:
} 
}        The flags s, n and b take an argument; the delimiter is shown below  as
}        `:',  but  any  character,  or  the  matching  pairs  `(...)', `{...}',
}        `[...]', or `<...>', may be used.
} 
} The '< >' brackets do not work as separators:
} zsh% print $string[(ws<:>)2]
} zsh: parse error near `)'
} zsh%

I see PWS has made a patch, but I just wanted to point out that the man
page was NOT incorrect before.

It works if you quote it:

torch% print "$string[(ws<:>)2]"
*

What PWS's patch does, in effect, is arrange that [ ] will quote the
redirection operators so you no longer need to explicitly quote them in
that particular context.  This is probably breaking some rule or other
of POSIX shell syntax but I can't immediately come up with any example
where it will matter.