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Re: print built-in doesn't print this.

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From: Roman Perepelitsa <roman.perepelitsa@xxxxxxxxx>
To: jdh <dhenman@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Zsh Users <zsh-users@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: print built-in doesn't print this.
Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2021 20:29:51 +0100
Archived-at: <https://zsh.org/users/27342>
In-reply-to: <20211114111957.4514@sachi>
List-id: <zsh-users.zsh.org>
References: <20211114111957.4514@sachi>

On Sun, Nov 14, 2021 at 8:21 PM jdh <dhenman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I wanted to insert a string of '-'s to visually show a change in a list.
> But  I found out that
>
>      print "--------"

This should do it:

    print -- "--------"

It's unfortunate that print doesn't report an error with the original
arguments. UNIX utilities usually do:

BSD:

    % ls --------
    ls: unrecognized option `--------'
    usage: ls [snip]

GNU:

    % ls --------
    ls: unrecognized option `--------'
    Try 'ls --help' for more information.

Roman.

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