From: "Michał Politowski" <mpol@charybda.icm.edu.pl>
To: zsh-users@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: $? being clobbered?
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 19:57:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030714175727.GA19238@Amber.lab.icm.edu.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030714173555.GA4352@mithrandir.aperiodic.net>
On Mon, 14 Jul 2003 13:35:56 -0400, Phil!Gregory wrote:
> I'm having a problem with zsh, and am not sure if it's a bug or a
> feature. If I have a program executed in my prompt, its return status
> clobbers the value of $?, which isn't really what I want. Example:
>
> > PROMPT='> '
> > perl -e 'exit 42'
> > echo $?
> 42
> > PROMPT='%{$(echoti cub 80)%}> '
> > perl -e 'exit 42'
> > echo $?
> 0
>
> Is there some way to fix this?
You can hack around this with
$(R=$?;echoti cub 80;return $R)
--
Michał Politowski -- mpol@charybda.icm.edu.pl
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-14 17:35 Phil!Gregory
2003-07-14 17:57 ` Michał Politowski [this message]
2003-07-14 19:25 ` Bart Schaefer
2003-07-14 19:51 ` Phil!Gregory
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