From: "Daniel Shahaf" <d.s@daniel.shahaf.name>
To: "Marc Chantreux" <eiro@phear.org>,
"Zsh hackers list" <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: what's the point of the precommand modifier - ?
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2020 06:46:19 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8184488e-0f0c-47dc-9fc2-c785f7c8ec31@www.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200914061515.GA3324@prometheus.u-strasbg.fr>
Marc Chantreux wrote on Mon, 14 Sep 2020 06:15 +00:00:
> hello,
>
> according to zshmisc(1):
>
> - The command is executed with a `-' prepended to its
> argv[0] string.
>
> ok ... but why is it useful?
Most shells check whether their argv[0] starts with a "-", and if that's
the case, they behave as login shells (as though -l was passed).
The effect can also be achieved with ARGV0; see zshparam(1).
Cheers,
Daniel
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