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Re: Setting $path variable

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From: Tomas Gradin <tg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Bruce Stephens <stephens@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Setting $path variable
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 14:50:46 +0200
Cc: zsh-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 19 Aug 1996 13:51:52 +0200." <199608191151.NAA06303@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

>> Is this supposed to happen:

>> Mycomputer % path=$path

>> Mycomputer % echo $PATH
>> /bin /usr/bin /usr/local/bin
>> 
>> So $PATH variable gets mangled. Adding something to the end of $path
>> (by path=($path /usr/X11/bin) does not have this effect.
>
>Yes, I think this is a feature, not a bug.  You should say
>"path=($path)" if you want to keep path as an array.

zsh 2.5.0 did not do this. Should we really change this behaviour?

/tg

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