Re: zsh's echo command buggy?

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, Marius Storm-Olsen wrote:

> Hi there all,
>
> I'm trying to run sed on some of environment variables to convert them to
> the cygwin style. (Yes, I know about cygpath, but I've never used sed
> before, and wanted to fiddle with it) In the process it seems I've stumbled
> over a problem seemingly related to zsh.
>
> If you set the following Windows environment variables:
>    SOMEPATH_A=C:\Tools;C:\Cygwin\bin;c:\cygwin;
>    SOMEPATH_B=C:\Tools;C:\Cygwin\bin;
>
> I get this:
>    C:\Documents and Settings\marius>zsh
>    $P$Gecho $SOMEPATH_A
>    $P$Gecho $SOMEPATH_B
>    C:\Tools;C:\Cygwiin;
>    $P$G
>
> 1) zsh is used as the default install (no .zshrc or .zprofile)
> 2) `echo $SOMEPATH_A` doesn't return anything
> 3) `echo $SOMEPATH_B` is flawed (Notice the double i's?)
>
> Doing the same in cygwin bash returns the expected result..
>
>
> Trying with the variables:
>    SOMEPATH_A=C:\Tools;C:\Sygwin\bin;c:\sygwin;
>    SOMEPATH_B=C:\Tools;C:\Sygwin\bin;
>
> Results in:
>    C:\Documents and Settings\marius>zsh
>    $P$Gecho $SOMEPATH_A
>    C:\Tools;C:\Sygwiin;c:\sygwin;
>    $P$Gecho $SOMEPATH_B
>    C:\Tools;C:\Sygwiin;
>    $P$G
>
> Slightly better, but still flawed :-/
> Sorry, but I havn't had the time to look into the zsh sourcecode myself
> yet.
> Any ideas? (*points at printf*) :-)

Yes, looks like zsh has a printf(string) somewhere instead of
printf("%s",string)...  Naughty, naughty...
	Igor
P.S. sed won't look up mounts for you...
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