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Re: =nonexistent crashes scripts

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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: kynn@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: =nonexistent crashes scripts
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 10:51:24 -0800 (PST)
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On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 kynn@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

> This seems like a serious bug to me; it makes the =command facility all 
> but useless. Is there any way around this?

It's not a bug, it's an intentional feature of file expansion.  Try 
"setopt nonomatch".

Or don't use file expansion.  =command was really meant as a shortcut for
interactive command entry, not as a scripting tool.  In a script you 
should be using something like

  FOO=$(whence -p nonexistent)

References:
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  - From: kynn

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