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Re: preserving single quotes

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From: Roman Perepelitsa <roman.perepelitsa@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Zsh Users <zsh-users@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: preserving single quotes
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2022 11:10:53 +0200
Archived-at: <https://zsh.org/users/28157>
In-reply-to: <b1f88f62-0dba-92df-d09d-9025c6846551@eastlink.ca>
List-id: <zsh-users.zsh.org>
References: <b1f88f62-0dba-92df-d09d-9025c6846551@eastlink.ca>

On Wed, Sep 28, 2022 at 5:13 AM Ray Andrews <rayandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I've done this before but I can't remember the invocation.
>
>     $ dd="echo howdy"
>
>     $ ee=$($=dd); echo $ee
>     howdy
>
>     $ dd="aptitude search '?name(libreoffice-java-common)'"
>
>     $ ee=$($=dd); echo $ee

Use ${(Q)${(z)dd}} instead of $=dd. See `man zshexpn` for the meaning
of (z) and (Q).

Roman.

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