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Re: using the "source" command in a "for" loop

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From: Zoltan Hidvegi <hzoli@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: luomat@xxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: using the "source" command in a "for" loop
Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 01:51:46 +0100 (MET)
Cc: greg@xxxxxxxx, zsh-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <199701030019.QAA07545@xxxxxxxx> from Timothy J Luoma at "Jan 2, 97 07:19:38 pm"
Organization: Dept. of Comp. Sci., Eotvos University, Budapest, Hungary
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Timothy J Luoma wrote:
> > eval $i='"$ZDOTDIR/$i"'
> 
> Is there any reason to use "eval" over "export"?

export sets the environment which eval doesn't which means tha export
requires a bit more memory and it will increase the size of every child
processes a little bit afterwards.  And some environment variables have
special meanings to applications.

Zoltan

References:
- Re: using the "source" command in a "for" loop
  - From: Timothy J Luoma

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