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From: Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com>
To: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
Cc: Zsh Users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: var=$( typeset "$1" ) ... not within a function.
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2022 19:29:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHYJk3Rs_zejYbfaWptovZP7xQXD5dds6ocU+N1Sgmr17bYhUQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ff3edbd0-977d-b750-439f-699dc5273870@eastlink.ca>

On 10/20/22, Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca> wrote:
> function ii ()
> {
>      var=$( printenv "$1" )
>      [ "$var" ] && var=$( typeset "$1" )
>      print "var is: $var    "
> }

What kind of logic is behind this code? You first check if the given
name is in the environment, then you assign over the same parameter
again with the same value using another way to get the value.

-- 
Mikael Magnusson


  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-10-20 17:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-20 17:21 Ray Andrews
2022-10-20 17:25 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2022-10-20 17:51   ` Ray Andrews
2022-10-20 17:54     ` Roman Perepelitsa
2022-10-20 18:38       ` Ray Andrews
2022-10-20 18:44         ` Roman Perepelitsa
2022-10-20 19:15           ` Ray Andrews
2022-10-20 19:35             ` Roman Perepelitsa
2022-10-20 20:48               ` Ray Andrews
2022-10-21  0:54                 ` Bart Schaefer
2022-10-21  1:58                   ` Ray Andrews
2022-10-21  2:25                     ` Bart Schaefer
2022-10-21 14:24                       ` Ray Andrews
2022-10-21 14:37                         ` Ray Andrews
2022-10-21 17:34                         ` Roman Perepelitsa
2022-11-01  5:00                       ` "typeset -p" inconsistency Bart Schaefer
2022-11-01 12:07                         ` Peter Stephenson
2022-11-01 12:40                         ` Ray Andrews
2022-11-01 19:08                           ` Bart Schaefer
2022-11-01 21:25                             ` Ray Andrews
2022-11-01 21:40                               ` Bart Schaefer
2022-11-01 22:46                                 ` Ray Andrews
2022-11-02  1:13                                   ` Lawrence Velázquez
2022-11-02  2:42                                     ` Ray Andrews
2022-11-02  3:11                                       ` Lawrence Velázquez
2022-11-02 12:56                                         ` Ray Andrews
2022-11-02 17:04                                           ` Bart Schaefer
2022-11-02 17:19                                             ` Ray Andrews
2022-11-02 18:21                                               ` Bart Schaefer
2022-11-02  3:10                                   ` Bart Schaefer
2022-11-02 17:09                                     ` Ray Andrews
2022-10-20 17:29 ` Mikael Magnusson [this message]
2022-10-20 17:43   ` var=$( typeset "$1" ) ... not within a function Ray Andrews
2022-10-21 17:33 ` Ray Andrews
2022-10-21 18:25   ` Bart Schaefer
2022-10-21 18:57     ` Ray Andrews
2022-10-21 19:02       ` Roman Perepelitsa
2022-10-21 19:06         ` Ray Andrews
2022-10-21 19:04     ` Ray Andrews

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