yeah saw it in an earlier post, very nice. for my personal enjoyment I
tried it, but for prod env changing one thing usually lead to changing a
lot or at least to testing a lot, so I will go with an intermediate
assignment for now to preserve the field splitting in an array
thanks for your time


Il giorno mer 22 apr 2020 alle 20:04 Roman Perepelitsa <
roman.perepelitsa@gmail.com> ha scritto:

> On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 7:53 PM Pier Paolo Grassi <pierpaolog@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > so it's a bug in that version? this is the zsh that comes with ubuntu
> xenial
>
> I don't know whether it's a bug. I do know that it works in 5.4, 5.7
> and 5.8. I haven't tried other versions.
>
> Ubuntu LTS promises to backport only security bug fixes. Very few of
> zsh bugs are classified as such. It's not unlikely that zsh 5.1.1 you
> are using is the same that was released in 2015 (I haven't actually
> checked it). FWIW, zsh that went into Ubuntu 18.04 had a nasty bug
> that made err_return option unusable. It still is. This is by design.
>
> Zsh 5.8 -- the latest version -- doesn't have many new features
> compared to 5.1 (it does have a few) but the number of bugs that have
> been fixed is massive. If you cannot upgrade your distro, you can try
> building Zsh from source or use https://github.com/romkatv/zsh-bin
> (disclaimer: I maintain this zsh distribution).
>
> Roman.
>
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Pier Paolo Grassi