ZSH for loop array variable issue

September 25, 2023 by Tarik

It’s actually much simpler than that:

lw=('plugin1' 'plugin2' 'plugin3')

for i in $lw; do
  . ~/Library/Rogall/plugins/$i/lw.prg end
done

In summary:

Assign to foo, not $foo (the shell would try to expand $foo and assign to whatever it expands to; typically not useful)
Use the loop variable directly; it contains the array value rather than the index