From: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>
To: zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] typeset: set $? on incidental error
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 15:22:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160121142201.GD21104@cventin.lip.ens-lyon.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160120074752.GB29602@tarsus.local2>
On 2016-01-20 07:47:52 +0000, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> In real-life examples, if the command subst had a non-zero exit status,
> the value would typically _not_ be the one I asked for:
>
> % cd $(mktemp -d)
> % local mtime=$(zstat +mtime myfile)
> zstat: myfile: no such file or directory
This is not specific to "local". Same expected behavior with "printf":
cventin% local mtime=$(zstat +mtime myfile)
zsh: command not found: zstat
cventin% echo $?
0
cventin% printf "%s\n" $(zstat +mtime myfile)
zsh: command not found: zstat
cventin% echo $?
0
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-21 14:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-14 0:13 Daniel Shahaf
2016-01-14 4:58 ` Bart Schaefer
2016-01-14 5:24 ` Eric Cook
2016-01-15 6:26 ` Daniel Shahaf
2016-01-15 14:46 ` Mikael Magnusson
2016-01-15 14:54 ` Eric Cook
2016-01-15 15:49 ` Peter Stephenson
[not found] ` <20160118022557.GE3979@tarsus.local2>
2016-01-18 4:38 ` Mikael Magnusson
2016-01-18 13:33 ` Mikael Magnusson
2016-01-20 7:47 ` Daniel Shahaf
2016-01-20 15:00 ` Eric Cook
2016-01-23 23:53 ` Daniel Shahaf
2016-01-24 3:32 ` Eric Cook
2016-01-26 22:50 ` Daniel Shahaf
2016-01-27 4:15 ` Error status of "repeat" (was Re: [PATCH] typeset: set $? on incidental error) Bart Schaefer
2016-01-27 4:38 ` Bart Schaefer
2016-01-27 9:52 ` Peter Stephenson
2016-01-29 9:18 ` Daniel Shahaf
2016-01-29 9:29 ` Peter Stephenson
2016-01-29 10:25 ` Daniel Shahaf
2016-01-27 4:17 ` [PATCH] typeset: set $? on incidental error Bart Schaefer
2016-01-29 9:18 ` Daniel Shahaf
2016-01-30 7:46 ` typeset docs flow " Daniel Shahaf
2016-01-30 19:47 ` Bart Schaefer
2016-01-31 0:49 ` Jun T.
2016-01-31 17:03 ` Bart Schaefer
2016-02-01 3:23 ` Jun T.
2016-02-01 5:41 ` Bart Schaefer
2016-01-21 14:22 ` Vincent Lefevre [this message]
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