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From: Zefram <zefram@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: autoloaded functions through |
To: mason@primenet.com.au (G C Wing)
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G C Wing wrote:
>Well, looks like a bug. (zsh 3.0.3-test3)
...
>% ls | cat
>this is ls
>% which -a ls
>undefined ls () { }
>/bin/ls

No, it's not a bug.  the left hand side of a pipeline runs in a
subshell, so the autoloading can't affect the main shell.

-zefram