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- Subject: Re: Recursive Tree Copy (with filter)?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.003815.3305@nic.csu.net>
- From: oleg@gd.cs.csufresno.edu
- Date: 23 Nov 92 00:38:14 PST
- Sender: oleg@gd.cs.csufresno.edu
- References: <1992Nov19.211633.27405@unixland.natick.ma.us> <pershing.722372799@teal>
- Organization: Computer Science Departement of California State University in Fresno
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- In article <pershing.722372799@teal> pershing@teal.csn.org (Paul Pershing) writes:
- >Speaking of "recursive."
- >
- >In zsh 2.1, after defining several functions and aliases that are provided
- >with the sources, I had three processes suspended and couldn't kill them.
- >each time I issued a command, either,
- >
- Current version is zsh 2.3beta, you may want to check if it solves the
- problem.
-
- >kill %1
- >kill %2
- >Kill -9 %1
- >and so on,
-
- Is there an alias for kill? jobs -l ; /bin/kill -9 pid pid ... should work
- anyway.
-
- >
- >I got this error message:
- >
- >"zsh: job table full or recursion limit exceeded"
- >
- >The only time I'd seen that message before is when I tried to use
- >a tcsh alias for safe remove in my zsh, i.e.,
- >
- >alias rm='rm -i'
- >
- >with this alias defined in zsh, you get the same error as above.
- >
- I just tried "alias echo=echo foo" and "echo bar" and it gave logical result.
- This is with v2.3beta. In earlier versions you can probably get by with
- alias rm="/bin/rm -i".
-
- Oleg
-