Re: Useful zsh/datetime things

[Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Oct 9, 11:29pm, Oliver Kiddle wrote:
}
} Bart wrote:
} > A useful addition to strftime would be an option to assign the
} > result to a parameter
} 
} Don't really see the point of that. $(...) does the job and it is more
} obvious

But $(...) forks a copy of the shell, which is a lot more expensive than
assigning to a parameter.

Even an option to set $REPLY would be sufficient.  It doesn't need to take
the name of the parameter as an argument.

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