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Subject: Re: assigning parameters and globbing 
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2006 10:27:09 +0100
From: Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>
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Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> I wonder why there isn't something similar in standard to avoid the "="
> in assignments, e.g. a typeset option -e: export -e BLAH *([-1])

This one's easy to do with a function:

  setexport() { export $1=$2; }
  setexport BLAH *([-1])

It's harder if you're trying to do something that makes BLAH local to
the immediately enclosing scope---zsh lets you set variables globally or
in the current scope but not in the immediately surrounding scope---but
you don't want that in this case.

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