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From: "Owen M. Astley" <oma1000@cam.ac.uk>
To: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk
Subject: Re: /bin/zsh -ce 'false; echo bug'
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 09:26:46 +0100 (BST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.96.990826091939.27810A-100000@alpha2.poco.phy.cam.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199908260149.SAA46088@scv4.apple.com>

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.
> 
> Should it? Has anyone else come across this?

I 'think' that POSIX doesn't allow for options of this type, it should be
written as -c -e <commandstring>.  However, I can't remember where I  read
that, and as most shells seem to cope with it, it should be done.

Is there any reason why parseargs() doesn't use getopt?

Owen



  reply	other threads:[~1999-08-26  8:27 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 [this message]
1999-08-26 18:06   ` Bart Schaefer
1999-08-26 18:36     ` PATCH: " Bart Schaefer

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