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Re: history expansion - modifiers :h and :t - questions

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From: Jim <linux.tech.guy@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: history expansion - modifiers :h and :t - questions
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2023 18:24:11 -0500
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On Tue, Oct 24, 2023 at 4:56 PM Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Tue, Oct 24, 2023 at 12:23 PM Jim <linux.tech.guy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

You can get around this with ${(e):-\${DirPath:h$N}}

I believe I only had one occasion of using the 'e' flag before. Forgot about it.

Thanks for the reminder.

The documentation for :t is being a bit too literal. More accurate
would be to say that 0 is always the same as having no digit at all.

Thanks for the info. That makes more sense.

Regards,

Jim

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