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Re: lines to array

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From: "Christian Walther" <cptsalek@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Matt Wozniski" <godlygeek@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: lines to array
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 08:45:47 +0100
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On 14/02/07, Matt Wozniski <godlygeek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 2/13/07, Meino Christian Cramer wrote:
>  I am looking for a zsh-like way to put each line of the output for
>  example 'ls -l' into an array.
>  Is this possible without "looping" ?
>

How about this:
array=( "${(f)$(ls -l)}" )

That should work.


So this is the zsh-way... And I was wondering in the last few days how
to do this. (I finally ended up using for and changed IFS.)

Could you please explain what ${(f)...} actually does? Is there some
kind of parameter expansion going on?


~Matt

Regards
Christian (Walther)

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