From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes From: "Bart Schaefer" Message-Id: <990128093329.ZM1677@candle.brasslantern.com> Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 09:33:29 -0800 In-Reply-To: <19990128132316.B19607@fysh.org> Comments: In reply to Phil Pennock "Re: set -A and stat -A vs. typeset -A and stat -H" (Jan 28, 1:23pm) References: <990128014724.ZM32736@candle.brasslantern.com> <19990128132316.B19607@fysh.org> X-Mailer: Z-Mail (4.0b.820 20aug96) To: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk Subject: Re: set -A and stat -A vs. typeset -A and stat -H MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailing-List: 5093 On Jan 28, 1:23pm, Phil Pennock wrote: } Subject: Re: set -A and stat -A vs. typeset -A and stat -H } } You might with to check the documentation for the stat module, which } seems up to date. Yes, I did. The actual string "(H)ash" isn't used any more, but the name of the argument for -H is still "hash". } `stat -A' was already taken. For assigning to an Array. Yes, and is so because of `set -A', I imagine (hence the Subject). My point is not that you should have chosen -A for `stat', but that there really isn't *any* option letter that can be the same for all of `set', `typeset' and any third command you might name. } "What are four lowercase letters that are not legal flag arguments } to the Berkeley UNIX version of `ls'?" } } HAND (and no, the first two letters of that are just coincidence). Um, HAND are not lowercase letters ... and BSD `ls' does use -A. ;-> (My answer would be e j v y, but I had to think about it for too long.) -- Bart Schaefer Brass Lantern Enterprises http://www.well.com/user/barts http://www.brasslantern.com