From: Zoltan Hidvegi <hzoli@cs.elte.hu>
To: luomat@peak.org
Cc: greg@iweb.net, zsh-users@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: using the "source" command in a "for" loop
Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 00:12:48 +0100 (MET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199701022312.AAA00632@hzoli.ppp.cs.elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199701022112.NAA14675@PEAK.ORG> from Timothy J Luoma at "Jan 2, 97 04:12:23 pm"
> > # need to export the vars, or they're lost when leaving the loop
No, they are not lost.
> 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/$i"
The first version does not work because zsh tries to assign the parameter
named `$i'. You have to use eval to assign the value of $i. Although this
worked without eval up to zsh-3.0.0 it was never documented. You can use
eval $i='"$ZDOTDIR/$i"'
Zoltan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-01-03 0:33 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <3.0.32.19970102160304.0098b380@ns1.iweb.net>
1997-01-02 21:12 ` Timothy J Luoma
1997-01-02 23:12 ` Zoltan Hidvegi [this message]
1997-01-03 0:19 ` Timothy J Luoma
1997-01-03 0:51 ` Zoltan Hidvegi
1997-01-02 20:08 Timothy J Luoma
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