On Tuesday 29 June 2010 05:05:56 Benjamin R. Haskell wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Jun 2010, Joke de Buhr wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm using a for loop with glob qualifiers to process a list of altered
> >
> > files. It looks like this:
> > for a in *(e:age today:); do some_command $a ; done
> >
> > The problem, I've enabled the option PRINT_EXIT_VALUE. Now zsh echoes
> > the line "zsh: exit 1" for every file which doesn't match the
> > qualifier.
> >
> > If I use this (builtin) command zsh reports the exit status as well:
> > print *(e:age today:)
> >
> > But if I use this (external) command zsh doesn't:
> > ls *(e:age today:)
> >
> > I'm not sure if this behavior is intentional but it sure is annoying.
> > Disabling PRINT_EXIT_VALUE before running these commands doesn't make
> > that much fun. I think zsh shouldn't print the exit value at all.
>
> Maybe not the answer you're hoping for, but with very recent zsh[1], the
> following pair of commands can provide an effect similar to
> PRINT_EXIT_VALUE while specifically excluding a non-zero return status
> when inside a glob qualifier:
>
> # $1 $2 and $3 are possibly-different versions of the command
> # $1 seemed fine to me
> preexec () { _debug_lastcmd=$1 }
>
> # Print "(command): exit (status)" to stderr,
> # unless context contains globqual
> TRAPZERR () {
> local ret=$?
> if (( ! $zsh_eval_context[(Ie)globqual] )) ; then
> printf "%s: exit %d\n" $_debug_lastcmd $? >&2
> fi
> }
>
> NB. I never use PRINT_EXIT_VALUE, nor do I plan to, so I'm not sure what
> behaviors might be different, behavior-wise. I suspect that
> PRINT_EXIT_VALUE is finer-grained in its output, for starters.
You're right it isn't (shouldn't) be quite that powerful as PRINT_EXIT_VALUE.
PRINT_EXIT_VALUE has the benefit of printing the exit values of commands within
piped expressions in case something went wrong.
$ print "asdf" | cat | false | cat
zsh: done print "asdf" | cat |
zsh: exit 1 false |
zsh: done cat
The suggested code seems to be more like a "only the last" exit value just
like the last exit value echoed within prompts. It's a good think I'm not
using glob qualifiers with commands that often so it's not too complicated to
ignore the "zsh: exit 1" lines.
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