From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21220 invoked from network); 1 Feb 2005 13:54:13 -0000 Received: from news.dotsrc.org (HELO a.mx.sunsite.dk) (130.225.247.88) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 1 Feb 2005 13:54:13 -0000 Received: (qmail 53493 invoked from network); 1 Feb 2005 13:54:02 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by a.mx.sunsite.dk with SMTP; 1 Feb 2005 13:54:02 -0000 Received: (qmail 23040 invoked by alias); 1 Feb 2005 11:58:20 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 8450 Received: (qmail 23026 invoked from network); 1 Feb 2005 11:58:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO a.mx.sunsite.dk) (130.225.247.88) by sunsite.dk with SMTP; 1 Feb 2005 11:58:20 -0000 Received: (qmail 4042 invoked from network); 1 Feb 2005 11:57:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO vrs.michael-prokop.at) (81.223.126.153) by a.mx.sunsite.dk with SMTP; 1 Feb 2005 11:57:39 -0000 Received: from localhost (unknown [81.223.126.153]) by vrs.michael-prokop.at (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1A0D10482 for ; Tue, 1 Feb 2005 12:57:37 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 12:57:37 +0100 From: Michael Prokop To: zsh-users@sunsite.dk Subject: handling of variables Message-ID: <2005-02-01T12-49-14@devnull.michael-prokop.at> Reply-To: Michael Prokop Mail-Followup-To: zsh-users@sunsite.dk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-URL: http://www.michael-prokop.at/ X-Operating-System: Debian GNU/Linux - 2.6.8.1 on a i686 X-Registered-Linux-User: 224337 X-Crypto: GnuPG/1.2.3 http://www.gnupg.org X-GPG-Key-ID: 0x37E272E8 X-GPG-Key: http://www.michael-prokop.at/gpg X-GPG-Fingerprint: 04AE E62C 9502 CD34 A7DA 857B D8DF 53FB 37E2 72E8 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.7+20050129i X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2 on a.mx.sunsite.dk X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=6.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.0.2 X-Spam-Hits: -2.6 Hello, I'm just wondering about: % zsh -f % FOO=BAR /bin/echo "$FOO" % Why doesn't this work? Am I running out of coffee? :) Of course the following works: % ( FOO=BAR ; echo "$FOO" ) BAR % FOO=BAR && /bin/echo "$FOO" BAR And I'm wondering what's happening at: % zsh -f % FOO=BAR BAR=FOO echo $FOO $BAR % FOO=BAR BAR=FOO echo $FOO $BAR BAR % Can anyone please explain me what is happening here? thx && regards, -mika- -- ,'"`. http://www.michael-prokop.at/ ( grml.org -» Linux for texttool-users and sysadmins `._, http://www.grml.org/