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How can I force zsh to write automatically complete path to history?
Suppose I did some time ago cd /path/to/foo/bar and then evince file.pdf. Now if I want to open file.pdf again I have also to do both steps again (using history). However I would do it in a single ...
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"$-" Returns 569X During ZSH Invocation [duplicate]
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While studying the shell parameter, $-, for sh, bash, and zsh, I discovered that it returned current option flags, hBc, for both sh and bash but 569X for zsh.
SUSE >> bash -c 'echo &...
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Looping through command line parameter options until next parameter
In a new addition to a script I am working on, I want to loop through parameters associated with a flag until zsh reaches the next flag in the command. For instance, when the user enters the following:...
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If no argument is given to mandatory option, zparseopts takes next option as the argument
I am using zsh 5.4.2. The function that is causing issue is:
function zp () {
zparseopts -E -watch:=o_watch -show=o_show
echo "show : $o_show"
echo "watch ...
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How do I make an option (not argument of the option) mandatory in zparseopts?
In the example bellow:
function zp () {
zparseopts -E -walk:=o_walk
echo "walk: $o_walk"
}
I get the following output:
$ zp --walk "Walking"
walk : --walk ...
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Is there a simple way to get array of all arguments that do not begin with a hyphen?
Zsh includes a powerful utility for parsing command line options,zparseopts.
Is there an easy way to extract the array of all the command line arguments that don't begin with a hyphen?
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How to run a specified codeblock with getopts when no options or arguments are supplied?
So I am writing a script that mixes options with arguments with options that don't. From research I have found that getopts is the best way to do this, and so far it has been simple to figure out and ...
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