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Subject: :P test failure
From: Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com>
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Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2020 21:27:54 +0000
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This doesn't work on my machine:

 # This is a bit brittle as it depends on PATH_MAX.
 # We could use sysconf..
 bad_pwd="/${(l:16000:: :):-}"
 print ${bad_pwd:P} | wc -c
0:modifier ':P' with path too long
>16002

The modification fails with error and output

zsh: path expansion failed, using root directory
2

pws