Any zsh users here? I am migrating from bash. I had a bash

>>61683162
Don't know if this'll help or if I'm just a moron who doesn't know what he's talking about, but $N, where N is any integer, are positional parameters and you can't assign anything to them.

>>61683239

Code test

>>61683239
No you're right, it is an arglist, just like argv[] in C-ish languages. I think you're supposed to be able to access the arglist in this way.

the way it works is i call my function, and pass it parameter $1, then execute the function.

I tried changing it to $0, $1, and $2, just in case it were indexed differently, but I'm pretty sure that my first argument is $1.

by the way, the thing i am passing is an http url. in bash it just werked without any escaping, so i think zsh should be the same

>>61683295
Are you passing invalid chars or globs?

>>61683347
Yeah, Zsh is finicky and you're gonna have to escape those chars.

i found an answer here, but it's basically saying "turn of the zsh security features to make it like bash"

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/145214/must-pass-urls-in-quotes

how do i do it in the zsh way?

>>61683381
Set nomatch off.

setopt +o nomatch

>>61683398
how can i do that within the function, then set it back after the function runs? i already tried adding statements to my function

>>61683489
It doesn't change the behaviour in any bad way, it just changes it to behave like bash.

You can try

setopt -o nomatch

to set it back to default, but it's better to just surround your inputs with quotes.