From: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
To: Zsh Users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: permission denied
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2023 11:34:34 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5e16ada3-6968-78e9-7347-44b6181c29b1@eastlink.ca> (raw)
So, now having my 'chain' variable and experimenting with using it as a
command, I run into this problem with any of my functions, like 'l' here:
% chain=( ls ); $chain
... OK as expected
% chain=( l ); $chain
zsh: permission denied: l
% chain=( l ); eval $chain
... works fine.
It seems strange that a perfectly usable function throws 'permission
denied' used that way. IIRC there are times when that message is
misleading, it's not really a permissions issue but something else. I
vaguely recall crashing into this before but I can't remember what the
real reason was. And why does 'eval' fix it?
next reply other threads:[~2023-04-17 18:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-04-17 18:34 Ray Andrews [this message]
2023-04-17 19:07 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2023-04-17 20:41 ` Ray Andrews
2023-04-17 21:52 ` Bart Schaefer
2023-04-17 22:44 ` Ray Andrews
2023-04-18 2:41 ` Bart Schaefer
2023-04-18 3:35 ` Ray Andrews
2023-04-20 21:35 ` Ray Andrews
2023-04-20 21:47 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2023-04-20 22:09 ` Ray Andrews
2023-04-20 22:13 ` Bart Schaefer
2023-04-20 22:47 ` Ray Andrews
2023-04-21 3:12 ` Bart Schaefer
2023-04-21 13:33 ` Ray Andrews
2023-04-21 14:12 ` Peter Stephenson
2023-04-21 14:42 ` Ray Andrews
2023-04-21 21:58 ` Bart Schaefer
2023-04-22 0:56 ` Ray Andrews
2023-04-20 22:17 ` Roman Perepelitsa
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2020-12-21 23:01 Ray Andrews
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