Re: Can't tell the difference in operation between PATH_SCRIPT and NO_PATH_SCRIPT

[Steve Dondley <s@dondley.com>]

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Small type in the last. That first line should read PATH=./dir

I also put a foo.zsh in the current directory and it is never called regardless of whether pathscript is on or off. The foo.zsh script in ./dir is called every time. 

Thanks,
Steve Dondley
Owner, Prometheus Labor Communications
Westfield, MA

413-537-4451




> On Jan 25, 2024, at 10:21 PM, Steve Dondley <s@dondley.com> wrote:
> 
> Sorry, I’ve got a bad misconcepiton somewhere. I stil don’t get it.
> 
> I do: PATH=.dir
> 
> When I do: setopt pathscript
> And then do: foo.zsh
> 
> It finds foo in the ./dir directory and executes it.
> 
> 
> Then when i do: unsetopt pathscript
> And then I do: foo.zsh
> 
> It stil finds foo.zsh in the ./dir directory.
> 
> So I’m not seeing how it behaves any differently. 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> On Jan 25, 2024, at 10:05 PM, Lawrence Velázquez <larryv@zsh.org> wrote:
>> 
>> On Thu, Jan 25, 2024, at 9:00 PM, Steve Dondley wrote:
>>> I’ve been looking over the documentation and I really can’t make sense 
>>> out of what the PATH_SCRIPT option is supposed to do.
>>> 
>>> If it’s set, which it is by default, I think it’s supposed to look 
>>> through directories PATH and try to find the command. But if it’s not 
>>> set, it doesn’t look through directories in PATH.
>>> 
>>> At least that’s my understanding. But as a far as I can tell, I can run 
>>> a command in /bin with or without PATH_SCRIPT option set.
>>> 
>>> I’m obviously confused about what the docs are saying. Can someone shed 
>>> light on this for me?
>> 
>> The option affects how zsh behaves when invoked without -c or -s
>> and with a first non-option argument that doesn't contain any
>> slashes.  In this situation, shells generally try to find and run
>> a script with that name in the current directory; if there is no
>> such script, they try to find one in PATH.  PATH_SCRIPT lets you
>> control whether zsh performs that fallback PATH search.  (It does
>> not affect other PATH searches.)
>> 
>> 	% cat foo.zsh
>> 	cat: foo.zsh: No such file or directory
>> 	% cat dir/foo.zsh
>> 	print foo
>> 	% PATH=./dir
>> 	% /bin/zsh -o PATH_SCRIPT foo.zsh
>> 	foo
>> 	% /bin/zsh +o PATH_SCRIPT foo.zsh
>> 	/bin/zsh: can't open input file: foo.zsh
>> 
>> -- 
>> vq
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