Monday, August 1, 2011

Re: sh vs bash syntax coloring

> You can put this option somewher in ~/.zshenv. Or, better, use zsh syntax for
> it:
> !action=(xpdf -option) ; ... ; $action file
> !action="xpdf -option" ; ... ; ${(z)action} file
> !action="xpdf -option" ; ... ; $=action file
> in last case it is just one more character to type, in the first case you should
> type exactly the same number of characters, but two of them are different. These
> methods are not the same under all circumstances, but are the same here.
> I actually hate using bash for scripting: how do you like using
> command "${array[@]}"
> where in zsh you type just
> command $array
> . You have to also turn your mind on remembering that you must use quotes around
> any parameter if you want it to come in one piece and unmodified.
>
> I would likely choose zsh, perl, python for scripting but not bash.

Ok thank you. I think this will be sufficient for my need.
Actually I didn't say bash was better than zsh, but I learnt sh syntax
first (not even bash, so no array at all it seems) and I don't know zsh
one. I only write small scripts ;-)
But I'm sure you're right.

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