From: Stefano Lattarini Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2012 20:13:09 GMT Subject: Re: How do I run tests under Valgrind? Message-ID: <505CCA55.6030609@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: On 09/21/2012 09:58 PM, Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote: > Hi again, > > Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote: >> I was able to reproduce the problem on all my machines, and I consider >> this very disturbing. However, I was successfully able to corner the >> issue. I have an overtly long $PATH that's not getting split properly >> by `IFS=:` in one corner case -- in other words, this shell script >> fails to execute properly when called with `--tee` (just set a really >> long $PATH and try): > > Oops. Looks like it has nothing to do with an overtly long $PATH. It > has something to do with $SHELL being zsh though, because other shells > work. Looking deeper into this. > Zsh doesn't do word-splitting by default on variable expansions: $ zsh -c 'v="1 2 3"; for x in $v; do echo "$x"; done' 1 2 3 unless you set the SH_WORD_SPLIT option, or put Zsh in Bourne-compatibility mode somehow: $ zsh -o SH_WORD_SPLIT -c 'v="1 2 3"; for x in $v; do echo "$x"; done' 1 2 3 $ zsh -c 'emulate sh; v="1 2 3"; for x in $v; do echo "$x"; done' 1 2 3 More info at: HTH, Stefano