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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 01:51:46 +0100 (MET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <199701030051.BAA16471@bolyai.cs.elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199701030019.QAA07545@PEAK.ORG> from Timothy J Luoma at "Jan 2, 97 07:19:38 pm"

Timothy J Luoma wrote:
> > eval $i='"$ZDOTDIR/$i"'
> 
> Is there any reason to use "eval" over "export"?

export sets the environment which eval doesn't which means tha export
requires a bit more memory and it will increase the size of every child
processes a little bit afterwards.  And some environment variables have
special meanings to applications.

Zoltan


  reply	other threads:[~1997-01-03  1:02 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
1997-01-03  0:51       ` Zoltan Hidvegi [this message]
1997-01-02 20:08 Timothy J Luoma

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