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From: Scott RoLanD <shr@chat.net>
To: **Zsh Workers List <zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk>
Subject: typeset -U and "special-ness"
Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 11:32:29 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <19990515113229.A26292@chat.net> (raw)

I love 'typeset -U' for paramaters like PATH, MAILPATH, and
MANPATH. However, I was disappointed to learn that 'typeset -U
LD_LIBRARY_PATH' has no effect.

I understand that 'typeset -U' only works for "special" paramaters,
but why? How did MANPATH get elevated to the status of a "special"
paramater when it isn't used by the shell at all?

Also, 'typeset -U' doesn't remove duplicates from current values of
the paramaters. Any good reason for this?
For example:
	% unset MANPATH
	% typeset +U MANPATH
	% echo $MANPATH

	% MANPATH=foo:foo
	% echo $MANPATH
	foo:foo
	% typeset -U MANPATH		<- Why not effect the value?
	% echo $MANPATH
	foo:foo
	% MANPATH=$MANPATH
	% echo $MANPATH
	foo

What do you think?
-- 
Scott RoLanD
http://www.chat.net/~shr/


             reply	other threads:[~1999-05-15 18:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-05-15 18:32 Scott RoLanD [this message]
1999-05-16 13:22 ` Peter Stephenson

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