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Re: select problem

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From: Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: select problem
Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 10:12:42 +0300
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On ÐÐÐÐÐÐÐÑÐÐÐ 12 ÑÐÐÐÑÑ 2009 22:48:25 david sowerby wrote:
> I don't want to subscribe to the mailing lists so please cc
> I wrote a shell script in bash (sorry) before I switched to zsh.
> The script has no "bashisms" but when I changed #!/bin/bash to
> #!/bin/zsh it didn't work correctly -- zsh ver 4.3.6 on debian It's
> just a simple script using select to print a list of music, choose a
> file and play it. select input in $(/bin/ls -A /home/david/music)
> In bash this prints a screen and a half output - all the music files.
> Then the PS3 prompt In zsh this is truncated - only the first
> screenfull is shown, then the PS3 prompt, cutting off the last part
> of the ls output.

If you just hit RETURN (empty line) it will display next part of list. I 
agree that it is somewhat confusing and in any case undocumented.

-andrey

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