Re: permission denied

[Ray Andrews <rayandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bart:
> On 2023-04-17 19:41, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> > Think of aliases as preprocessor directives like #define in C, and
> > you'll get there.
>
> I can almost smell that it's something best accepted as it is. BTW, I 
> figured out the message.  Seems in the unacceptability of the alias 
> 'l', she keeps looking, and finds the file named 'l' on the path and, 
> it being a source file (containing alias 'l' and the called function 
> '_l') and not being executable, 'permission denied' is about the right 
> thing to say about file 'l'.  If not on the path, the message is 
> 'command not found'.  I had thought that 'permission denied' referred 
> to the alias.  Dunno, perhaps 'zsh: permission denied, file: ./l' 
> might be friendlier, it would at least be clear what the shell is 
> chewing on there.  So at the end of it 'eval' is my friend in need.

One last question:

You did this:

    chain0=( ${(s:; :)${(z)1}} )

... ignoring the semicolon stuff for now, since it's more a matter of 
principal than practice for me:

    chain0=( ${=1} )

... that would seem the more 'normal' thing, but you've obviously used 
'(z)' pointedly.  What's the difference here?  The manual leaves me 
feeling rather vague.





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