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Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 17:04:34 +0100
From: DervishD <raul@pleyades.net>
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Subject: Why this doesn't work in zsh?
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    Hi all :))

    I have part of a script that says something like:

    for parameter
    do
    ...
        option=${parameter%=*}
    ...
    done

    This assign the part before '=' to variable 'option', no more, no
less, and uses parameter expansion.

    It has to work with both bash and zsh, but zsh says, when the
assignment is done, '* not found'.

    The problem is the equalsign on the parameter expansion, now I
know, but, why? How can I fix this without making the script
incompatible with bash? What am I doing wrong?

    Thanks a lot :)
    Raśl