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From: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: print -D
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2013 11:21:44 +0100
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About "print -D", the zshbuiltins(1) man page says:

        -D     Treat the arguments as directory names, replacing
               prefixes with ~ expressions, as appropriate.

But what if an argument is not a directory name? Why directory names
and not just pathnames?

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