zsh not accepting commandline args at end of command

zsh not accepting commandline args at end of command

[Eric Smith]

Hi

What might be causing this error in zsh.

eric@apple:~$ echo $SHELL
/bin/bash
eric@apple:~$ ls /tmp -F
ssh-XXUIWy1q/  v235390/
eric@apple:~$ zsh
[eric@apple ~]  $ ls -F /tmp
ssh-XXUIWy1q/  v235390/

... and here is the problem:
[eric@apple ~]  $ ls /tmp -F
ls: -F: No such file or directory
/tmp:
ssh-XXUIWy1q  v235390

thanks

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Eric Smith

Re: zsh not accepting commandline args at end of command

[Miek Gieben]

[On 19 Nov, @18:15, Eric wrote in "zsh not accepting commandline  ..."]
> Hi
> 
> What might be causing this error in zsh.
> 
> eric@apple:~$ echo $SHELL
> /bin/bash
> eric@apple:~$ ls /tmp -F
> ssh-XXUIWy1q/  v235390/
> eric@apple:~$ zsh
> [eric@apple ~]  $ ls -F /tmp
> ssh-XXUIWy1q/  v235390/
> 
> ... and here is the problem:
> [eric@apple ~]  $ ls /tmp -F
> ls: -F: No such file or directory
> /tmp:
> ssh-XXUIWy1q  v235390
> 
> thanks

I don't have that problem here:
% ls /tmp -F
0007300254/           iceauth.XXXXB8AEpM  ksocket-miekg/  texXL9vHn
....

running zsh 4.0.7

Maybe you have some sort of weird alias for ls?

grtz Miek

Re: zsh not accepting commandline args at end of command

[Clint Adams]

> What might be causing this error in zsh.
> 
> eric@apple:~$ echo $SHELL
> /bin/bash
> eric@apple:~$ ls /tmp -F
> ssh-XXUIWy1q/  v235390/
> eric@apple:~$ zsh
> [eric@apple ~]  $ ls -F /tmp
> ssh-XXUIWy1q/  v235390/
> 
> ... and here is the problem:
> [eric@apple ~]  $ ls /tmp -F
> ls: -F: No such file or directory
> /tmp:
> ssh-XXUIWy1q  v235390

Is your PATH different under zsh (thus causing you to use a different
ls)?  Is something setting the environment variable POSIXLY_CORRECT?
Do you have different aliases for ls?

Re: zsh not accepting commandline args at end of command

[Peter Stephenson]

Eric Smith wrote:
> eric@apple:~$ ls /tmp -F
> ssh-XXUIWy1q/  v235390/

This is apparently the GNU ls behaviour.  (I think it's pretty yukky, but
never mind.)

> [eric@apple ~]  $ ls /tmp -F
> ls: -F: No such file or directory

This is standard with many other variants of ls.

Are the paths different in zsh and bash?

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Re: zsh not accepting commandline args at end of command

[Eric Smith]

Thanks

But is weems to be using the same ls
[eric@apple ~]  $ which ls
/bin/ls
[eric@apple ~]  $ /bin/ls /tmp -F
/bin/ls: -F: No such file or directory
/tmp:
ssh-XXUIWy1q  v235390
[eric@apple ~]  $ exit

now in bash:
eric@apple:~$ /bin/ls /tmp -F
ssh-XXUIWy1q/  v235390/


Peter Stephenson said:
> Eric Smith wrote:
> > eric@apple:~$ ls /tmp -F
> > ssh-XXUIWy1q/  v235390/
> 
> This is apparently the GNU ls behaviour.  (I think it's pretty yukky, but
> never mind.)
> 
> > [eric@apple ~]  $ ls /tmp -F
> > ls: -F: No such file or directory
> 
> This is standard with many other variants of ls.
> 
> Are the paths different in zsh and bash?
> 
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Re: zsh not accepting commandline args at end of command

[Aidan Kehoe]

 Ar an 19ú lá de mí 11, scríobh Eric Smith :

 > [eric@apple ~]  $ which ls
 > /bin/ls
 > [eric@apple ~]  $ /bin/ls /tmp -F
 > /bin/ls: -F: No such file or directory
 > /tmp:
 > ssh-XXUIWy1q  v235390
 > [eric@apple ~]  $ exit
 > 
 > now in bash:
 > eric@apple:~$ /bin/ls /tmp -F
 > ssh-XXUIWy1q/  v235390/

It's just about possible that Bash is using a global alias for ls. Aliases
don't show up in the output of "which" in Bash; if you want to see any
aliases for ls in Bash, try "alias" on its own. 

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Re: zsh not accepting commandline args at end of command

[Peter Stephenson]

Eric Smith wrote:
> Thanks
> 
> But is weems to be using the same ls
> [eric@apple ~]  $ which ls
> /bin/ls
> [eric@apple ~]  $ /bin/ls /tmp -F
> /bin/ls: -F: No such file or directory
> /tmp:
> ssh-XXUIWy1q  v235390
> [eric@apple ~]  $ exit
> 
> now in bash:
> eric@apple:~$ /bin/ls /tmp -F
> ssh-XXUIWy1q/  v235390/

In that case, you probably have POSIXLY_CORRECT set in the environment
for zsh.

% POSIXLY_CORRECT= =ls . -F
/home/pws/solaris8/bin/ls: -F: No such file or directory
.:
Master-16-14-bc2x.xcd  msg.html
% =ls . -F
Master-16-14-bc2x.xcd  msg.html

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Re: zsh not accepting commandline args at end of command

[William H. Magill]

On 19 Nov, 2003, at 12:32, Eric Smith wrote:
> But is weems to be using the same ls
> [eric@apple ~]  $ which ls
> /bin/ls
> [eric@apple ~]  $ /bin/ls /tmp -F
> /bin/ls: -F: No such file or directory
> /tmp:
> ssh-XXUIWy1q  v235390
> [eric@apple ~]  $ exit
>
> now in bash:
> eric@apple:~$ /bin/ls /tmp -F
> ssh-XXUIWy1q/  v235390/

The command results from bash are simply wierd.

Using
GNU bash, version 2.05b.0(1)-release (powerpc-apple-darwin7.0)

ls /tmp -F
generates exactly the same output as does  zsh or tcsh  (all without 
initialization files).
               ls: -F: No such file or directory

The command syntax is
                ls [-ABCFGHLPRTWZabcdfghiklmnopqrstuwx1] [file ...]

The parameters are positional, with the options first and the operands 
second.
The "-F" is treated as a file name, hence "no such file."

This is true for both the BSD and SystemV versions of ls.


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Re: zsh not accepting commandline args at end of command

[Julien CROUZET]

> The command syntax is
>                 ls [-ABCFGHLPRTWZabcdfghiklmnopqrstuwx1] [file ...]
>
> The parameters are positional, with the options first and the operands
> second.
> The "-F" is treated as a file name, hence "no such file."
>
> This is true for both the BSD and SystemV versions of ls.
>

My thought : ls uses getopt(3)

Extract from man getopt(3) :
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
  POSIXLY_CORRECT
  If this is set, then option processing stops as soon as a non-option
argument is encountered.
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Julien CROUZET

Re: zsh not accepting commandline args at end of command

[Bart Schaefer]

On Nov 19,  6:15pm, Eric Smith wrote:
} 
} What might be causing this error in zsh.

I suspect you have an alias, or function wrapper, for 'ls'.  Works for me
with 'zsh -f'.

Re: zsh not accepting commandline args at end of command

[Eric Smith]

Nope according to this:
[eric@apple ~]  $ which ls
/bin/ls
[eric@apple ~]  $ ls /tmp -f
ls: -f: No such file or directory
/tmp:
ssh-XXUIWy1q  v235390
[eric@apple ~]  $ exit

back to bash:
eric@apple:~$ which ls
/bin/ls
eric@apple:~$ ls /tmp -f
./  ../  .X11-unix/  .font-unix/  ssh-XXUIWy1q/  .X0-lock  v235390/

Some differences in strace FWIW:

zsh:
_sysctl({{CTL_KERN, KERN_VERSION}, 2, 0xbffff8cc, 30, (nil), 0}) = 0
brk(0)                                  = 0x805774c
brk(0x807874c)                          = 0x807874c
brk(0)                                  = 0x807874c
brk(0x8079000)                          = 0x8079000
ioctl(1, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE, {B38400 opost isig icanon echo ...}) = 0
ioctl(1, 0x5413, {ws_row=48, ws_col=126, ws_xpixel=1022, ws_ypixel=766}) = 0
stat64("/tmp", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|S_ISVTX|0777, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
stat64("-f", 0x8057898)                 = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
lstat64("-f", 0x8057898)                = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
write(2, "ls: ", 4ls: )                 = 4
write(2, "-f", 2-f)                     = 2

bash:
_sysctl({{CTL_KERN, KERN_VERSION}, 2, 0xbffff9ac, 30, (nil), 0}) = 0
brk(0)                                  = 0x805774c
brk(0x807874c)                          = 0x807874c
brk(0)                                  = 0x807874c
brk(0x8079000)                          = 0x8079000
ioctl(1, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE, {B38400 opost isig icanon echo ...}) = 0
ioctl(1, 0x5413, {ws_row=48, ws_col=126, ws_xpixel=1022, ws_ypixel=766}) = 0
stat64("/tmp", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|S_ISVTX|0777, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
open("/dev/null", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_DIRECTORY) = -1 ENOTDIR (Not a directory)
open("/tmp", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY) = 3

Bart Schaefer said:
> On Nov 19,  6:15pm, Eric Smith wrote:
> } 
> } What might be causing this error in zsh.
> 
> I suspect you have an alias, or function wrapper, for 'ls'.  Works for me
> with 'zsh -f'.

-- 
Eric Smith