From: Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>
To: zsh-workers <zsh-workers@sunsite.dk>
Subject: Re: Failing to write to history file if containing directory doesn't exist
Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2007 11:15:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200710081015.l98AFlIU018448@news01.csr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dbfc82860710080309m41cfa984q5aa0474c6b4bdf62@mail.gmail.com>
"Nikolai Weibull" wrote:
> Zsh currently fails to write a history file if the directory
> containing it doesn't exist. Would a patch that creates the parent
> directory if it doesn't exist before attempting to write to the
> history file be of any interest? I'd be willing to write such a
> patch, but if this behavior is undesirable, I won't waste my time.
I'd have thought it was a reasonable expectation that the directory
already existed. You can always add "mkdir -p ${HISTFILE:h}" when you
set HISTFILE, if you need to.
--
Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com> Software Engineer
CSR PLC, Churchill House, Cambridge Business Park, Cowley Road
Cambridge, CB4 0WZ, UK Tel: +44 (0)1223 692070
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-08 10:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-08 10:09 Nikolai Weibull
2007-10-08 10:15 ` Peter Stephenson [this message]
2007-10-08 12:08 ` Nikolai Weibull
2007-10-08 13:38 ` Peter Stephenson
2007-10-08 14:05 ` Nikolai Weibull
2007-10-08 14:14 ` Clint Adams
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