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From: dana <dana@dana.is>
To: "John, Michael" <Michael.John@Crown.com>
Cc: "zsh-workers@zsh.org" <zsh-workers@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: unknown user error
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2018 11:17:01 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <C8C40904-7199-4A97-8979-2AEFFA2139D8@dana.is> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BYAPR07MB464776FCD03668F17DBBA59598750@BYAPR07MB4647.namprd07.prod.outlook.com>

On 22 Jun 2018, at 09:48, John, Michael <Michael.John@Crown.com> wrote:
>I’m trying to set my path but zsh gives be an unknown user error. I’m not sure
>what’s going on, never ran into this issue in the past.
>
>$ export path=(/usr/local/bin ...)
>zsh: unknown user

Probably you're using an older version of zsh that doesn't have export as a
reserved word, and it's treating (/u...) as a glob qualifier. On those versions
of zsh, you need to do array declarations and assignments in two steps.

Also, i think Bart told me once that the result of exporting the array part of a
tied parameter is undefined (even though it does seem to work in this case), so
maybe it would be safer to use PATH for that:

  % path=(/usr/local/bin ...)
  % export PATH

dana


  reply	other threads:[~2018-06-22 16:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-06-22 14:48 John, Michael
2018-06-22 16:17 ` dana [this message]
2018-06-22 16:20 ` Daniel Shahaf
2018-06-22 16:52   ` Bart Schaefer
2018-06-22 19:46     ` Daniel Shahaf

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