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From: Zoltan Hidvegi <hzoli@cs.elte.hu>
To: borsenkow.msk@sni.de
Cc: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: Small problem with typeset -U.
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 17:41:23 +0200 (MET DST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <199607121541.RAA09137@bolyai.cs.elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SV4.3.94.960712165030.23028C-100000@itsrm1> from Andrej Borsenkow at "Jul 12, 96 05:01:17 pm"

> Hi!
> 
> A little problem with mirror parameters (like path and PATH) and typeset
> -U command.
> 
> If I set -U option for one of pair of mirrored parameters, it is not set
> for other. Thus, e.g.
> 
> typeset -U path
> PATH=$PATH:~/bin:~/bin
> 
> still results in ~/bin being in path/PATH two times. The same holds also
> if I set -U for path and try to change PATH.

This behaviour is deliberate since it gives more flexibility to the shell.
As I remember when I originally introduced it others agreed that this is
useful.

Zoltan



  parent reply	other threads:[~1996-07-12 15:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1996-07-12 13:01 Andrej Borsenkow
1996-07-12 13:07 ` Andrej Borsenkow
1996-07-12 15:41 ` Zoltan Hidvegi [this message]
1996-07-12 15:48 ` Zefram
1996-07-12 15:48 ` Bart Schaefer

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