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From: Zefram <A.Main@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: Tag functions with shell options?
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>So I think I need some way of marking these functions to be interpreted with
>SH_WORD_SPLIT turned on locally.  Or have I missed something simple?

awkward_func () {
  setopt local_options sh_word_split
  ...
}

This will set SH_WORD_SPLIT for the duration of the function, restoring
the state when it returns.

-zefram