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[Atom Smasher <atom@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

here's a weird one...

this is part of a sanity test on line 369 of my zshrc (link below):
    [ -f /usr/{share,lib,share/lib}/{zoneinfo,locale/TZ}/${TZ} ]

here it works:	  zsh 4.2.1 (i386-portbld-freebsd4.7)
here it doesn't:  zsh 4.2.1 (sparc-sun-solaris2.10)

on _both_ systems, the command below will show errors for non-existent 
files (to stderr), and will show that a tz-file exists (to stdout). on 
both systems the command returns >0.
 % ls -l  /usr/{share,lib,share/lib}/{zoneinfo,locale/TZ}/${TZ}

this works on both bsd and solaris:
 % ls /usr/{share,lib,share/lib}/{zoneinfo,locale/TZ}/${TZ} 2> /dev/null | grep -q $TZ

i can use the return status from grep to determine if the file exists. but 
i'd prefer to keep this in zsh, as much as possible. i suppose i could 
assign stdout to a variable, test for the variable, and do it that way... 
but it seems a bit convoluted.

1) why does this behave differently with two different builds of 
zsh-4.2.1? has it likely been fixed since 4.2.1?

2) is there a simple fix? or simple workaround?

my zshrc is v0.119 - http://smasher.org/zsh/


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