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Created February 7, 2012 23:39
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memoize a backticked system call result in zsh
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mydate.zsh
my_date(){
readonly d="`date`" || echo "$d"
echo "$d"
}
# should always be the same result
print $(my_date)
sleep 2
print $(my_date)
sleep 2
print $(my_date)
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