I have a bash script that uses hub to create pull-requests easily. In bash it works fine, I just type gpr <base_branch> and does the logic in the code.
# git pr function gpr() { # exit if no base branch supplied if [[ ! $1 ]]; then echo "No base branch supplied. Exiting" return fi if [[ ! $2 ]]; then echo "Creating pull-request" echo "No pull-request message set." read -p "Do you want to use the last commit message as pull-request message. Y or N? " choice if [[ $choice =~ ^[Yy]$ ]]; then # Use last commit message COMMIT=$(git log -1 HEAD --pretty=format:%s) echo "Using last commit message: $COMMIT" MESSAGE="-m '$COMMIT'" else # Use own message read -p "Enter message: " message MESSAGE=-"m '$message'" fi fi COMMAND="hub pull-request -b $1 $MESSAGE" echo "Creating pull-request against $1 branch with message: $MESSAGE" eval $COMMAND echo "Pull-request created successfully" } Which in the end will result to hub pull-request -b <base_branch> -m <pull-request message or last commit message>
But how do I convert this to zsh?
I tried pasting the code to .zshrc but it seems to be not working. I get the following when running gpr <base_branch>
gpr develop Creating pull-request No pull-request message set. gpr:read:10: -p: no coprocess gpr:read:18: -p: no coprocess Creating pull-request against develop branch with message: -m '' And vim appears In bash the process goes like this
gpr develop Creating pull-request No pull-request message set. Do you want to use the last commit message as pull-request message. Y or N? y Using last commit message: [UIUX-x] Commit message Creating pull-request against develop branch with message: -m '[UIUX-x] Commit message' Pull-request created successfully 1 Answer
The problem is that zsh's read function takes different options than bash's. In bash, read -p specifies a prompt; in zsh, it says to read from a coprocess (which doesn't exist). You need to switch to the zsh syntax, which puts the prompt after the variable to read (delimited by a question mark):
read "choice?Do you want to use the last commit message as pull-request message. Y or N? " ... read -p "message?Enter message: " Also, I'd make two other recommendations (for both bash and zsh): first, use lowercase or mixed-case variable names; there are a large number of all-caps variable names with special meaning to the shell, system, etc (and they're not the same between bash and zsh), and it's way to easy to accidentally re-use one of them with weird consequences.
Second, building the command in a variable and then evaling it is not safe (in either bash or zsh). Either use an array, or just put the message (and just the message) in a variable and execute the command directly:
if ... message=$commit else ... read message fi echo "Creating pull-request against $1 branch with message: $message" hub pull-request -b "$1" -m "$message" 
