Re: can print but not assign to variable

[Lawrence Velázquez <larryv@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Oct 26, 2022, at 5:49 PM, Ray Andrews wrote:
> On 2022-10-26 14:38, Roman Perepelitsa wrote:
>> $ var=( (#i)$W/rap )
>
> :-)
>
> What do you call that construction?  I know "(( ))" and "$(( ))" and 
> "$()" but I don't really know that one tho I've used it a few times on 
> faith.  As usual, if I knew what it was called I'd read up on it.

It's just an array assignment.  See zshparam(1).

You originally attempted to do a simple scalar assignment, for which
globbing is not performed on the right-hand side.

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vq