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Re: Capturing STDOUT without subshells or file I/O

On Sun, 2 Sep 2018 at 22:59, Ben Klein <robobenklein@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hello Zshellers,
>
> I have an interesting predicament, I with to capture the STDOUT (builtin printf) of a ZSH function to a variable, in which the function should be running in the current shell context.

mksh can do this with:

${ foo;}

foo runs in current shell and the ${ ... } is substituted with its
output. One more cool thing mksh has - ${|foo;} which is replaced by
the value of REPLY after running foo in current shell. I think that
each time a serious, optimized coding occurs (like when creating an
advanced theme), those will be very handy.

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