Re: Parameter Expansion

Lawrence Velázquez <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.shells.zsh.devel,gmane.comp.shells.zsh.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, Jul 15, 2025, at 2:17 PM, Mark J. Reed wrote:
> I'm not denying that the doc could be clearer - there should probably 
> be a note in PARAMETER EXPANSION mentioning that history expansion 
> modifiers can be used

There already is one:

	In addition to the following operations, the colon modifiers
	described in noderef(Modifiers) in noderef(History Expansion)
	can be applied:  for example, tt(${i:s/foo/bar/}) performs
	string substitution on the expansion of parameter tt($i).

https://sourceforge.net/p/zsh/code/ci/zsh-5.9.0.2-test/tree/Doc/Zsh/expn.yo

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