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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: {arch} directory


From: Jason McCarty
Subject: Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: {arch} directory
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 23:11:21 -0400
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Miles Bader wrote:
> David Brown <address@hidden> writes:
> > Zsh does something even more interesting.  When the completion is the
> > beginning of a word, it searches for the text in the path.
> > 
> >   $ echo =ls
> >   /bin/ls
> 
> Is there a point to that, or is just being perverse?

Maybe the syntax itself is perverse, but I find the functionality
pretty convenient, as shorthand for `which foo`, e.g.
  quaternion:~$ file =mozilla
  /usr/bin/mozilla: symbolic link to /etc/alternatives/mozilla

Jason




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