Re: Does zsh have an equivalent to the shopt command ?

[Lloyd Zusman <ljz@asfast.com>]

Sean <schliden@gmail.com> writes:

> The message fails to print and the shell hangs !

Could you post your entire script?


> On 7/24/06, Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com> wrote:
>> Sean wrote:
>> > On futher investigation, it appears that it is not actually choking on
>> > that line, rather this code which appears in many of the case option
>> > function calls:
>> >
>> > version() { sed -e 's/^    //' <<EndVersion
>> >         TODO.TXT Manager
>> >         Version 1.6.3
>> >         Author:  Gina Trapani (ginatrapani@gmail.com)
>> >         Release date:  5/11/2006
>> >         Last updated:  7/6/2006
>> >         License:  GPL, http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
>> >         More information and mailing list at http://todotxt.com
>> > EndVersion
>> >     exit 1
>> > }
>>
>> Hmmm... again, that should work fine and does on my machine; the
>> shell isn't asked to do anything much beyond parsing a here document.
>> When you say "chokes", what do you mean?  Obviously calling the
>> function will cause the shell to exit, because of the "exit 1" at the
>> end ; is it failing to print the message, exiting in some odd way,
>> hanging...?  Or are you saying the options to the parent function (with
>> the getopts) are such that this function shouldn't be called?  In which
>> case, what combination of options to that function is causing unexpected
>> behaviour?  (I could believe getopts behaved differently from bash but I
>> need to see the command line being passed.)
>>
>> I'm guessing a lot of the spaces in that function were actually
>> tabs, but I've put those back and not had any problem.
>>
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