Re: Creating function in zsh

[czech@xxxxxxxxx]

Tried both the ";" and "&&".

Both work.

Thanks very much.



Corwin

> On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 12:59:39PM -0700, czech@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> Hi -
>>
>> I have created the following function in zsh on Mac OSX:
>>
>> cd() {
>>     builtin cd "$@" print -D $PWD
>> }
>>
>> This works find on OSX, but gives the following error on Fedora Core 8:
>>
>> johann:czechar:.zfunc> cd /home/czechar
>> cd /home/czechar
>> cd:cd:1: too many arguments
>>
>> I am running zsh 4.2.6 on Fedora.
>>
>> Any notion what the problem could be?
> [...]
>
> I doubt it works on MaxOSX. You're not separating the two
> commands, so "print", "-D" and $PWD are treated as arguments to
> "builtin cd".
>
> cd() {
>   builtin cd "$@" &&
>     print -rD $PWD
> }
>
> "&&" as you probably want to print the current directory only if
> cd succeeds.
>
> You need -r, as you don't want \x sequences to be expanded.
>
> If you want to print the directory regardless of whether cd
> succeeds, you should at least make sure you return cd's exit
> status:
>
> cd() {
>   local ret
>   builtin cd "$@"
>   ret=$?
>   print -rD $PWD
>   return $ret
> }
>
> --
> Stéphane
>
>