From: DervishD <raul@pleyades.net>
To: Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>
Cc: Zsh <zsh-workers@sunsite.dk>
Subject: Re: Why this doesn't work in zsh?
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 18:57:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030114175708.GB2403@DervishD> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <25.1042565949@csr.com>
Hi Peter :)
> > It has to work with both bash and zsh, but zsh says, when the
> > assignment is done, '* not found'.
> You can stick a backslash before the =; that works in bash, too, since
> you can quote any character, even if it's not special.
OK, then, that's the solution :)) Thanks a lot :)
> The problem is that it's using path expansion `=prog', but I couldn't
> tell you why it should at that point; in fact, I suspect it shouldn't.
> Hence `setopt noequals' or `setopt nonomatch' would remove the problem,
> if you can live with the side effects.
Yes, the problem is noequals, I discovered after sending the
message. I can live with side effects, of course, but the problem is
that I cannot tell the script users to set appropriate options when
running this on their systems. The better solution is to quote the
character. Thanks a lot :)))
Raúl
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-14 16:04 DervishD
2003-01-14 17:39 ` Peter Stephenson
2003-01-14 17:57 ` DervishD [this message]
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