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RE: Dynamically adding to $mailpath?

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From: Borzenkov Andrey <Andrey.Borzenkov@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "'Aidan Kehoe'" <kehoea@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, zsh-users@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Dynamically adding to $mailpath?
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 15:30:00 +0300
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>  > should work though. Unfortunately you still need one fork (echo) unless
> I
>  > miss some obvious way to treat result of nested globbing as array.
> 
> The echo is built-in, isn't it?
> 

Yes but you can't "read output of process" without forking this process. The
only case when $(...) is not forked is $(<file-name) which is replaced by
the content of file-name.

OTOH you are going to do it just once on startup, are not you? In which case
fork or not fork is irrelevant here. 

-andrey

References:
- RE: Dynamically adding to $mailpath?
  - From: Aidan Kehoe

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