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Re: test patches
- X-seq: zsh-workers 3100
- From: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@xxxxxxx>
- To: Zoltan Hidvegi <hzoli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: test patches
- Date: 09 May 1997 10:04:50 +0200
- Cc: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Zsh hacking and development)
- In-reply-to: Zoltan Hidvegi's message of Fri, 9 May 1997 03:42:03 -0400 (EDT)
- References: <199705090742.DAA09847@xxxxxxxxxx>
Zoltan Hidvegi <hzoli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> This version of zsh now seems to run debian startup/shutdown scripts
> without problems, but I haven't tried any dpkg runs yet. Unfortunately
> some Linux programs assume that /bin/sh has brace expansion so I'm thinking
> about making ignorebraces off by default even in sh mode. bash, ksh93 and
> pdksh all do brace expansion by default. The problem is that in zsh if
> ignorebraces is not set, commands like `{foo' or `foo bar}' do not
> work.
Would it be too much work (or too much braindamage, for that matter),
to do what bash does in cases of `{foo' and `foo bar}' -- i.e. pretend
the expansion is not there.
bash$ {foo
bash: {foo: command not found
bash$ foo bar}
bash: foo: command not found
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Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@xxxxxxx> | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia
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