From: Matt Zagrabelny <mzagrabe@d.umn.edu>
To: Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com>
Cc: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: inconsistency between bash and zsh subshells
Date: Mon, 23 May 2022 12:51:44 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOLfK3V9nx0fWu1xDyd+H3X2pz+epMz1fM5VR2-oW=xmJ9jWMg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHYJk3S4Rw=SRGNcrWjvMjZx0J9_PEUxh25nGm4iZ5Rww7-WnQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, May 23, 2022 at 12:32 PM Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/23/22, Matt Zagrabelny <mzagrabe@d.umn.edu> wrote:
> > On Mon, May 23, 2022 at 12:01 PM Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> On 5/23/22, Matt Zagrabelny <mzagrabe@d.umn.edu> wrote:
> >>
> >> > Why does the subshell in zsh get executed even though the conditional
> >> > branch is not? That is, the "touch"-ing of /tmp/FOO.
> >>
> >> You're most likely using a poorly written prompt theme and/or thing
> >> that updates your terminal title.
> >
> >
> > Haha. Probably!
> >
> >
> >
> >> Try disabling that code and try
> >> again if so.
> >>
> >
> > Yup - that was it. I removed my .zshrc and it works as expected.
> >
> > Thanks for the hint! Time to figure out what poorly written part of my
> > .zshrc is to blame.
>
> It will probably be something involving print -P and \a or \007 in
> something named preexec. If you change $1 in that to \$1 it is more
> likely to work,
Probably = 100% likely.
> though it's of course hard to say without seeing the
> particular code.
For fun, and full disclosure, here is the code:
preexec () {
case $TERM in (xterm*|screen*|tmux*|rxvt)
print -Pn "\e]0;%(!.-=*[ROOT]*=- | .)%n@%m:%y : $1\a"
esac
}
to which I've changed $1 to \$1 and it fixes the issue.
Thanks for the help, Mikael! It is very appreciated!
-m
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-05-23 17:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-05-23 16:55 Matt Zagrabelny
2022-05-23 17:01 ` Mikael Magnusson
2022-05-23 17:26 ` Matt Zagrabelny
2022-05-23 17:31 ` Mikael Magnusson
2022-05-23 17:51 ` Matt Zagrabelny [this message]
2022-05-23 17:04 ` Dominik Vogt
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