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From: Roman Perepelitsa <roman.perepelitsa@gmail.com>
To: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
Cc: Zsh Users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: permission denied
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2023 21:07:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAN=4vMqwc8-LFr4ZAh9Mi6RtWNdG+21_AVbfsXFP-_muw3O6EQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5e16ada3-6968-78e9-7347-44b6181c29b1@eastlink.ca>

> On Mon, Apr 17, 2023 at 8:46 PM Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca> wrote:
>
> 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?

Run `which l` and have your question answered.

Roman.


  reply	other threads:[~2023-04-17 19:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-04-17 18:34 Ray Andrews
2023-04-17 19:07 ` Roman Perepelitsa [this message]
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
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2020-12-21 23:01 Ray Andrews

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