Re: Why this doesn't work in zsh?

[Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>]

DervishD wrote:
>     for parameter
>     do
>     ...
>         option=${parameter%=*}
>     ...
>     done
> 
>     It has to work with both bash and zsh, but zsh says, when the
> assignment is done, '* not found'.

You can stick a backslash before the =; that works in bash, too, since
you can quote any character, even if it's not special.

The problem is that it's using path expansion `=prog', but I couldn't
tell you why it should at that point; in fact, I suspect it shouldn't.
Hence `setopt noequals' or `setopt nonomatch' would remove the problem,
if you can live with the side effects.

-- 
Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>                  Software Engineer
CSR Ltd., Science Park, Milton Road,
Cambridge, CB4 0WH, UK                          Tel: +44 (0)1223 692070


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