From: Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>
To: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: bug with for and time
Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 17:10:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200410041610.i94GAl92005952@news01.csr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41616CDC.8020701@codesourcery.com>
Nathan Sidwell wrote:
> Zsh 4.0.4 appears to lose the time command in the following,
>
> nathan@garibaldi:363>for i in 1 2 ; time echo
>
>
> but, place the command in a subshell, and it works.
Yes, that's always been an annoying limitation: "time" works by gettings
system information about subprocesses, and there isn't one in this case.
--
Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com> Software Engineer
CSR Ltd., Science Park, Milton Road,
Cambridge, CB4 0WH, UK Tel: +44 (0)1223 692070
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-04 16:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-04 15:31 Nathan Sidwell
2004-10-04 16:10 ` Peter Stephenson [this message]
2004-10-05 9:38 ` Matthias B.
2004-10-05 18:18 ` Dan Nelson
2004-10-06 11:48 ` Matthias B.
2004-10-06 12:52 ` Nikolai Weibull
2004-10-06 17:06 ` Peter Stephenson
2004-10-06 17:53 ` Dan Nelson
2004-10-07 9:37 ` Peter Stephenson
2004-10-07 15:25 ` Dan Nelson
2004-10-08 13:14 ` Peter Stephenson
2004-10-08 14:18 ` Peter Stephenson
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