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Oil Doesn't Require Quoting Everywhere programming unix oilshell.org
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  Nei 2 years ago | link
  
  zsh has also long tried this, but the main issues is that people still want to write bash scripts ;-)
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    abathur 2 years ago | link
    
    I think the osh/oil split is a good (less cumbersome?) way to try to manage this need.
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    0x2ba22e11 2 years ago | link
    
    Does it still work now? How do I opt-in to this in zsh?
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      Nei edited 2 years ago | link
      
      I believe it is even on by default! setopt NO_SH_WORD_SPLIT
      
      the oil @split function is written $=variable
      
      argv(){print ${(qq)@};}
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        0x2ba22e11 2 years ago | link
        
        Thank you.
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    andyc 2 years ago | link
    
    The HN thread has some detail on that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26686201
    
    zsh doesn’t split, but it still omits empty strings, unless you opt out of that.
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  quasi_qua_quasi 2 years ago | link
  
  I’ve been tempted to try out one of the ‘new generation’ shells like oil or elvish.