Re: bug with for and time

[Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>]

Nathan Sidwell wrote:
> Zsh 4.0.4 appears to lose the time command in the following,
> 
> nathan@garibaldi:363>for i in 1 2 ; time echo
> 
> 
> but, place the command in a subshell, and it works.

Yes, that's always been an annoying limitation: "time" works by gettings
system information about subprocesses, and there isn't one in this case.

-- 
Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>                  Software Engineer
CSR Ltd., Science Park, Milton Road,
Cambridge, CB4 0WH, UK                          Tel: +44 (0)1223 692070


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