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From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@peak.org>
To: Zoltan Hidvegi <hzoli@cs.elte.hu>
Cc: greg@iweb.net, zsh-users@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: using the "source" command in a "for" loop
Date: Thu,  2 Jan 97 19:19:38 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <199701030019.QAA07545@PEAK.ORG> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199701022312.AAA00632@hzoli.ppp.cs.elte.hu>

Responding To:	Zoltan Hidvegi <hzoli@cs.elte.hu>
Original Date:	Fri, 3 Jan 1997 00:12:48 +0100 (MET)
Message-ID: 	<199701022312.AAA00632@hzoli.ppp.cs.elte.hu>

> 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"'

Is there any reason to use "eval" over "export"?

Thanks

TjL

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	Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org)
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  reply	other threads:[~1997-01-03  0:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [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
1997-01-03  0:19     ` Timothy J Luoma [this message]
1997-01-03  0:51       ` Zoltan Hidvegi
1997-01-02 20:08 Timothy J Luoma

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