Re: xargs with zsh function

[Ray Andrews <rayandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2021-01-20 9:52 p.m., Bart Schaefer wrote:
> Since Ray asked:  Apply this with
>   patch -p1 Functions/Misc/zargs < zargs_patch2.txt
Seems to pass my posted test with flying colors.  One thing tho, the 
paths:  My working 'zargs' is:

..../Zsh-5.8/share/zsh/5.8/functions/zargs

I have no directory 'Functions' or 'Misc' anywhere on my system. How is 
it that my zsh directory tree is different?

BTW, speaking of passing data from one function to another supposing we 
have a list of filenames in a file:

filename1
filename2
filename with spaces in it
filename with funny characters in it

... you can feed the lines to 'ls' one at a time using zargs as you've 
shown but 'ls' accepts:

$ ls filename1 filename2 'filename with spaces in it'

... how can the contents of the file be fed to 'ls' as one call, but 
with the spaces protected?  The individual lines need no quotes to 
protect them, but once morphed into a single line the quotes must be 
there.  Can it be done?