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Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 19:57:27 +0200
From: =?iso-8859-2?Q?Micha=B3?= Politowski <mpol@charybda.icm.edu.pl>
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Subject: Re: $? being clobbered?
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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:
>=20
> > PROMPT=3D'> '
> > perl -e 'exit 42'
> > echo $?
> 42
> > PROMPT=3D'%{$(echoti cub 80)%}> '
> > perl -e 'exit 42'
> > echo $?
> 0
>=20
> Is there some way to fix this?

You can hack around this with
$(R=3D$?;echoti cub 80;return $R)

--=20
Micha=B3 Politowski -- mpol@charybda.icm.edu.pl
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