Re: what is the effect of a percentage sign (%) as last character on the command line

[Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jan 21, 11:41am, Peter wrote:
} Subject: what is the effect of a percentage sign (%) as last character on 
}
} $ <anycommand>%
} 
} ( a percentage sign as last character after any command) resulting in no 
} output , whereas
} 
} $<anycomand>%<space>
} 
} results in normal output

Nothing in the normal shell configuration could cause this behavior.

Are you able to reproduce this behavior with "zsh -f" ?  If so, what
are the contents of your /etc/zshenv file?  (File location may differ
if you've installed zsh from prepackaged binaries.)

If not, the only thing that immediately comes to mind that might be
a cause of this is the value of $histchars, but even that doesn't
make sense to me.  What version of zsh is this?  Do you perhaps have
some kind of command-not-found handler set up?