From: "Lawrence Velázquez" <larryv@zsh.org>
To: "Ray Andrews" <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
Cc: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: Best practices for managing aliases in ohmyzsh?
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2021 23:27:07 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <00160177-798f-4dcc-a4ef-da6c3663883c@www.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <29064969-76d0-48a1-cb4a-719a9acaab29@eastlink.ca>
On Tue, Aug 31, 2021, at 10:33 PM, Ray Andrews wrote:
> On 2021-08-31 5:28 p.m., Bart Schaefer wrote:
> > Sourcing a file is not the same as executing a script.
> >
> Yikes, I'm missing something fundamental. In my head, executing a
> script is identical to sourcing it.
If you want to go a little deeper than Bart's summary, here's some
light bedtime reading.
https://homepages.cwi.nl/~aeb/std/hashexclam-1.html
https://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/various/shebang/
> If a function is declared (yes I know, wrong word but you get my
> meaning) then the function enters memory, otherwise it's
> interpret-and-forget until next time, no?
I don't really know what you mean here.
> If 'chmod +x' then you don't hafta 'say' 'source me', it's
> automatic, and it will be found if on the path, etc, but I'm
> laboring under the idea that nothing else is different.
It's trivial to confirm that this is not the case.
% cat ./foo
#!/bin/zsh
foo=2
typeset -p foo
% chmod +x ./foo
% foo=1
% typeset -p foo
typeset foo=1
% ./foo
typeset foo=2
% typeset -p foo
typeset foo=1
% . ./foo
typeset foo=2
% typeset -p foo
typeset foo=2
--
vq
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-01 3:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-08-30 18:13 Steve Dondley
2021-08-30 22:27 ` Ray Andrews
2021-08-30 23:22 ` Steve Dondley
2021-08-30 23:34 ` Ray Andrews
2021-08-31 1:44 ` Steve Dondley
2021-08-31 0:14 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2021-08-31 1:29 ` Steve Dondley
2021-08-31 8:26 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2021-08-31 15:51 ` Steve Dondley
2021-08-31 17:57 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2021-08-31 18:54 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-08-31 21:22 ` Steve Dondley
2021-08-31 21:36 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2021-08-31 21:43 ` Steve Dondley
2021-08-31 21:44 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2021-09-01 0:12 ` Ray Andrews
2021-09-01 0:28 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-09-01 2:33 ` Ray Andrews
2021-09-01 3:01 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-09-01 14:20 ` Daniel Shahaf
2021-09-01 15:58 ` Ray Andrews
2021-09-01 18:22 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2021-09-01 19:11 ` Ray Andrews
2021-09-01 19:16 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-09-01 19:56 ` Ray Andrews
2021-09-01 20:03 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-09-01 20:52 ` Steve Dondley
2021-09-01 21:06 ` Ray Andrews
2021-09-01 22:06 ` Steve Dondley
2021-09-01 20:53 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2021-09-01 21:11 ` zeurkous
2021-09-01 21:19 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-09-01 21:29 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2021-09-01 21:23 ` Ray Andrews
2021-09-01 21:05 ` Ray Andrews
2021-09-01 3:19 ` Steve Dondley
2021-09-01 3:30 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-09-01 3:27 ` Lawrence Velázquez [this message]
2021-09-01 16:20 ` Ray Andrews
2021-09-01 18:34 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2021-09-01 19:19 ` Ray Andrews
2021-08-31 8:06 ` Anssi Saari
2021-08-31 15:45 ` Steve Dondley
2021-08-31 16:24 ` zzapper
2021-08-31 16:47 ` Steve Dondley
2021-08-31 17:20 ` Steve Dondley
2021-08-31 17:26 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-08-31 17:40 ` Steve Dondley
2021-08-31 17:47 ` Steve Dondley
2021-08-31 18:31 ` Ray Andrews
2021-08-31 18:59 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2021-09-01 6:40 ` Michael Klemm
2021-09-01 22:13 ` Steve Dondley
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