From: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
To: Danek Duvall <duvall@comfychair.org>, zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: forbidden variable in for loop.
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 08:03:13 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50D1E541.5030209@eastlink.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121219235850.GB15388@lorien.comfychair.org>
On 19/12/12 03:58 PM, Danek Duvall wrote:
> Ray Andrews wrote:
>
>> for a in *; do echo $a; done
>>
>> All fine. but:
>>
>> for i in *; do echo $i; done
>>
>> Gives me a list of zeros. Followed by "zsh: bad floating point constant"
>>
>> It works fine for any letter of the alphabet so far tested except
>> 'i'. For the life of me I can't guess what it is that makes 'i'
>> special. Any thoughts?
> You probably did a "typeset -E i" at some point in the past. "unset i"
> should get it working again.
>
> Danek
>
That did it Danek, thanks very much. I have no idea how that happened,
but I guess it did.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-20 0:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-19 15:22 Ray Andrews
2012-12-19 23:58 ` Danek Duvall
2012-12-19 16:03 ` Ray Andrews [this message]
2012-12-20 6:44 ` Function not found czech
2012-12-20 9:03 ` Brandon Sandrowicz
2012-12-20 11:02 ` Jérémie Roquet
2012-12-21 18:11 ` Bart Schaefer
2012-12-20 0:04 ` forbidden variable in for loop Frank Terbeck
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