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Re: Weird expansion issue with (D)

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From: Roman Perepelitsa <roman.perepelitsa@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Zach Riggle <zachriggle@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Zsh Users <zsh-users@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Weird expansion issue with (D)
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2022 18:54:36 +0200
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On Fri, Aug 5, 2022 at 6:37 PM Zach Riggle <zachriggle@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I think I might have discovered a bug in the (D) expansion of named directories, and I'm not sure how to sort this out.
>
>     $ echo "${(D)PWD}"
>     ~CODE_AUDIT_HELPERS
>
>     $ var=$PWD/install.zsh
>
>     $ ls $var
>     /Users/zachriggle/.zprezto/modules/code-audit-helpers/install.zsh
>
>     $ echo "${(D)var}"
>     ~var
>
> Any ideas on what's happening here?  This is on zsh 5.8.1

This is working as expected assuming you've enabled auto_name_dirs.
This isn't the kind of option I would recommend enabling unless you
really know what you are doing.

Roman.

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