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Re: why doesn't 'source *' work?
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- From: Timothy J Luoma <tjlists@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Subject: Re: why doesn't 'source *' work?
- Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 19:49:32 -0400
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Replying to message of 10 Apr 1999 23:19:06 +0100
from Bruce Stephens <bruce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
regarding ``Re: why doesn't 'source *' work?''
> > Is there a reason why 'source *' doesn't work?
> In what way doesn't it work?
$ cd /Users/tjl/Unix/zsh/source/functions/complex
$ ls
addwhite df-sort-by-used oeu
cd ej pine
cksub extract-serv replace-icon
del kill replace-serv
df-sort lkincds unimg
df-sort-by-avail ls-tar untar
df-sort-by-mount mv2lbin verify
df-sort-by-percent mv2scripts whois
df-sort-by-size oaf wn-to-rtf
$ which oeu
oeu not found
zsh: exit 1
$ source *
$ which oeu
oeu not found
zsh: exit 1
$ PATH=$PATH:.
$ source *
$ which oeu
oeu not found
zsh: exit 1
$ echo $PATH_DIRS
$
> According to the manual:
> If any arguments arg are given, they become the positional
> parameters; the old positional parameters are restored when the
> file is done executing. The exit status is the exit status of the
> last command executed.
>
> I'm guessing you missed the bit about the positional parameters.
Or just don't understand what the heck that means.
> If you want to source all the files (giving them no parameters),
> you'll need to use a loop:
>
> for i in *
> do
> source $i
> done
even simpler (and seems to work):
for i in ~/Unix/zsh/source/functions/complex/*; source $i
however I still don't understand why 'source *' doesn't accomplish the same
thing... perhaps I'm a bit dense.
> You could wrap this in an autoloaded function, if you wanted. But not
> a shell script, obviously. (Well, probably not.)
I added
for i in ~/Unix/zsh/source/functions/complex/*; source $i
to my .zshenv... that seems to work.
TjL
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