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* what's the point of the precommand modifier - ?
@ 2020-09-14  6:15 Marc Chantreux
  2020-09-14  6:46 ` Daniel Shahaf
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Marc Chantreux @ 2020-09-14  6:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Zsh hackers list

hello,

according to zshmisc(1):

       -      The command is executed with a `-' prepended to its argv[0] string.

ok ... but why is it useful?

regards,
marc


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* Re: what's the point of the precommand modifier - ?
  2020-09-14  6:15 what's the point of the precommand modifier - ? Marc Chantreux
@ 2020-09-14  6:46 ` Daniel Shahaf
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Daniel Shahaf @ 2020-09-14  6:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Marc Chantreux, Zsh hackers list

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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