From: "Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@candle.brasslantern.com>
To: "Owen M. Astley" <oma1000@cam.ac.uk>, zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk
Subject: Re: /bin/zsh -ce 'false; echo bug'
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 18:06:18 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <990826180618.ZM26162@candle.brasslantern.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.96.990826091939.27810A-100000@alpha2.poco.phy.cam.ac.uk>
On Aug 26, 9:26am, Owen M. Astley wrote:
> Subject: Re: /bin/zsh -ce 'false; echo bug'
> On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Matt Watson wrote:
>
> > gnumake-3.74 wants to use "/bin/sh -ce <commandstring>" to exec a sub
> > make. Unfortunately if zsh == sh, zsh doesn't grok the -ce as separate
> > options, so it ignores the "e" and does not set ERREXIT.
>
> I 'think' that POSIX doesn't allow for options of this type, it should be
> written as -c -e <commandstring>.
Zsh interprets everything after the -c as part of the command, so that will
attempt to run a command named "-e". If it really is the case that the
order of option letters doesn't matter (which appears to be true of bash,
at least), then zsh's option parser needs a bit more of a workover.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-08-26 18:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-08-26 1:49 Matt Watson
1999-08-26 8:26 ` Owen M. Astley
1999-08-26 18:06 ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
1999-08-26 18:36 ` PATCH: " Bart Schaefer
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