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From: Timothy J Luoma <tjlists@bigfoot.com>
To: zsh-users@sunsite.auc.dk
Subject: Re: why doesn't 'source *' work?
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 20:30:07 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <199904110030.UAA05230@ocalhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3iub4knto.fsf@cenderis.demon.co.uk>

Replying to message of 11 Apr 1999 01:22:59 +0100
	from Bruce Stephens <bruce@cenderis.demon.co.uk>
	regarding ``Re: why doesn't 'source *' work?''
	
> If you do "source a b c d e", then the file "a" gets sourced, with the
> positional parameters set: $1 gets set to "b", $2 to "c", $3 to "d"
> and $4 to "e".
>
> The same kind of behaviour that you get with shell functions and
> things.

Ah.... as one of my teacher's used to say:

``Light dawns on marble head.''

Thanks for the explanation, I guess that does make sense.

TjL



  reply	other threads:[~1999-04-11  0:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-04-10 23:49 Timothy J Luoma
1999-04-11  0:22 ` Bruce Stephens
1999-04-11  0:30   ` Timothy J Luoma [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1999-04-10 18:39 Timothy J Luoma
1999-04-10 22:19 ` Bruce Stephens

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