From: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>
To: zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: command -p should enable builtins not in path
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2020 13:28:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200820112815.GA216072@zira.vinc17.org> (raw)
Though zsh isn't meant to conform to POSIX, it should follow its
requirements when they make sense.
https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/command.html
says:
The following options shall be supported:
-p
Perform the command search using a default value for PATH that is
guaranteed to find all of the standard utilities.
^^^
So, in particular, the standard utility "cd" must be found. Note that
the above sentence does not mean that the utility must be somewhere
in $PATH, just that the used PATH value allows the shell to find the
utility; in case of a builtin utility (like "cd"), this will just run
the utility without needing PATH.
This works with all usual shells, except zsh:
zira% sh -c "command -p cd /tmp; pwd"
/tmp
zira% bash -c "command -p cd /tmp; pwd"
/tmp
zira% ksh -c "command -p cd /tmp; pwd"
/tmp
zira% zsh -c "command -p cd /tmp; pwd"
zsh:1: command not found: cd
/home/vinc17
zira% echo $ZSH_VERSION
5.8
Setting the POSIX_BUILTINS option allows "cd" to be found, but with
the drawback that it will not disable builtins that are in $PATH.
So this option is a bad solution when using "zmodload zsh/files"
without -F, for instance.
Note: "command -p cd ..." is used by Intel's script to set up
environment variables for its compiler.
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next reply other threads:[~2020-08-20 11:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-20 11:28 Vincent Lefevre [this message]
2020-08-21 13:03 ` Peter Stephenson
2020-08-21 15:49 ` Martijn Dekker
2020-08-21 16:08 ` Peter Stephenson
2020-08-21 16:35 ` Martijn Dekker
2020-08-24 18:30 ` Vincent Lefevre
2020-08-24 19:59 ` Martijn Dekker
2020-10-02 13:17 ` Vincent Lefevre
2020-08-21 15:47 ` Martijn Dekker
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