Hi. Installed on FreeBSD 2.1

Hi. Installed on FreeBSD 2.1

[Michael Talbot-Wilson]

... and very easily, too.  Ain't autoconf wonderful?

It is zsh-2.6-beta13.

I have a little problem with ls, though I guess it's more general.  Best 
explained by examples:

	$ ls -l -F			# okay
	$ A='-l'
	$ ls $A -F			# okay
	$ B='-l -F'
	$ ls $B				# error
					# BSD ls: "illegal option --"
					# GNU ls: "invalid option --"
	$ ls --8bit --color=tty -lF	# okay (GNU color ls)
	$ C='--8bit --color=tty'
	$ ls $C -lF		# unrecognized option `--8bit --color=tty'
				# (GNU color ls)

The problem does not appear with bash or tcsh.  It does appear with two 
varieties of ls with zsh.

The color ls works by assigning the variable LS_OPTIONS and using it in 
aliases.  It is set to "--8bit --color=<option>" by the program 
dircolors run in a shell startup file. 

-- Regards, Mike.

Re: Hi. Installed on FreeBSD 2.1

[d. hall]

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ð thus on Sun, 7 Jan 1996 15:54:03 +1030 (CST), Michael virtually scripted...


> I have a little problem with ls, though I guess it's more general.  Best 
> explained by examples:

> 	$ ls -l -F			# okay
> 	$ A='-l'
> 	$ ls $A -F			# okay
> 	$ B='-l -F'
> 	$ ls $B				# error
> 					# BSD ls: "illegal option --"
> 					# GNU ls: "invalid option --"
> 	$ ls --8bit --color=tty -lF	# okay (GNU color ls)
> 	$ C='--8bit --color=tty'
> 	$ ls $C -lF		# unrecognized option `--8bit --color=tty'
> 				# (GNU color ls)

> The problem does not appear with bash or tcsh.  It does appear with two 
> varieties of ls with zsh.

> The color ls works by assigning the variable LS_OPTIONS and using it in 
> aliases.  It is set to "--8bit --color=<option>" by the program 
> dircolors run in a shell startup file. 

herein follows a color_ls setup (which i use on linux), notice the ()'s
since (and i do not if this is consistant with ksh, although for some
snipping reason i think this isn't how ksh does it).

### setup colorized directories
if [[ $TERM = "linux" ]] then
  LS_OPTIONS=(--8bit --color=yes -A -T 0)
  LS_PAGER=(less -rE '-P continue $')
else
  LS_OPTIONS=(--8bit --color=no -A -T 0)
  LS_PAGER=cat
fi

### system functions
function d() 	{ \ls $LS_OPTIONS -CF $* | $LS_PAGER }
function dir()	{ \ls $LS_OPTIONS -l  $* | $LS_PAGER }
function vls()	{ \ls $LS_OPTIONS -l  $* | less -r }
function pls()	{ \ls $LS_OPTIONS -lg $* | grep -v "^[d-]......---"}

d.
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Re: Hi. Installed on FreeBSD 2.1

[Zefram]

>	$ ls -l -F			# okay
>	$ A='-l'
>	$ ls $A -F			# okay
>	$ B='-l -F'
>	$ ls $B				# error
>					# BSD ls: "illegal option --"
>					# GNU ls: "invalid option --"

You obviously don't have the SH_WORD_SPLIT option set.  Normally,
Bourne shells will perform word splitting on the result of parameter
expansions, as you rely on here, but zsh doesn't do that by default.
Apart from turning on the option, there are two possible solutions:

B=(-l -F)
ls $B

B='-d -F'
ls $=B

-zefram

Re: Hi. Installed on FreeBSD 2.1

[Michael Talbot-Wilson]

Oops.  Found my dumb error.  Forgot the dircolors "-z" option, just for 
zsh.  Sorry to bother you.

Nice shell.  It just offered to correct my spelling of "zshenv" to 
".zshenv" (but I meant /etc/zshenv).

-- Regards, Mike