From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3645 invoked from network); 2 Jan 1997 21:47:52 -0000 Received: from euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (list@130.207.146.50) by coral.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 2 Jan 1997 21:47:52 -0000 Received: (from list@localhost) by euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA09138; Thu, 2 Jan 1997 16:38:02 -0500 (EST) Resent-Date: Thu, 2 Jan 1997 16:11:24 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199701022112.NAA14675@PEAK.ORG> Content-Type: text/plain MIME-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) X-Image-URL: http://www.nerc.com/~luomat/Timothy_J_Luoma-X-Face.tiff In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970102160304.0098b380@ns1.iweb.net> X-Nextstep-Mailer: Mail 3.3 (Enhance 2.0b5) From: Timothy J Luoma Date: Thu, 2 Jan 97 16:12:23 -0500 To: greg haygood Subject: Re: using the "source" command in a "for" loop cc: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu Reply-To: luomat@peak.org References: <3.0.32.19970102160304.0098b380@ns1.iweb.net> Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Resent-Message-ID: <"N93Ml.0.G42.yH2po"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/577 X-Loop: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu Responding To: greg haygood Original Date: Thu, 02 Jan 1997 16:03:05 -0500 Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970102160304.0098b380@ns1.iweb.net> > # need to export the vars, or they're lost when leaving the loop Your fix worked. I guess something changed because this even worked for 3.0.0. No matter, as long as it works now I changed: $i="$ZDOTDIR/$i" to export $i="$ZDOTDIR/$i" Thanks! TjL -- Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org) http://www.next.peak.org/~luomat Awaiting Apple's NeXTStep