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Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 11:25:34 +0100
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Subject: Re: sourcing a sh file in zsh
From: Richard Hartmann <richih.mailinglist@gmail.com>
To: Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@gmail.com>
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On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 09:56, Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@gmail.com> wrote:

> Actually you can always do
>
> foo=$(<<-\HERE
>        function foo {
>         ...
>        }
>        HERE)
> emulate -c sh $foo

The problem with that is that it's not immediately apparent that this
function is intended to be executed in a different emulation.
Bart's suggestion is a lot easier to read for a third party and will
thus create less errors.


Richard