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Re: dynamic named directories clobber $reply

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From: Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: dynamic named directories clobber $reply
Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2011 22:24:47 +0100
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On Sat, 4 Jun 2011 14:24:14 +0200
Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I noticed that after a successful ~[something] substitution, ~[] or
> ~[invalid] would return the same substitution, because $reply leaks to
> the parent shell, and my function doesn't unset $reply when it doesn't
> find anything valid.

In addition to Bart's reply, this would only be an actual bug if it was
happening when your function returned non-zero, which is what it's supposed to
do if it doesn't have a match.

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