zsh bug: parsing error when "dir" is used as a variable name in zsh shell scripts

zsh bug: parsing error when "dir" is used as a variable name in zsh shell scripts

[Tim Rand]

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bash-3.2$ for dir in *
> do
> echo $dir
> done
0

% zsh --version
zsh 5.0.2 (x86_64-apple-darwin12.5.0)

% for dir in *
zsh: parse error near `-lSrah'

I noticed this because it causes ruby version manager (rvm) uses a similar
line.

Thank you in advance for considering the issue.
Tim

Re: zsh bug: parsing error when "dir" is used as a variable name in zsh shell scripts

[Bart Schaefer]

On Oct 26,  8:23pm, Tim Rand wrote:
}
} % for dir in *
} zsh: parse error near `-lSrah'

You must have an alias for "dir" coming from somewhere.  Furthermore you
must have what's called a global alias for dir; probably it looks like

alias -g dir="ls -lSrah"

It's almost certainly the case that you don't want the "-g" in there.

Note:

torch% alias -g dir="ls -lSrah"
torch% for dir in *
zsh: parse error near `-lSrah'
torch% alias dir="ls -lSrah" 
torch% for dir in *         
for>