z and OS X 10.10.3 don't play nicely together

[dlo]

Switching to a new directory which z has seen before in OS X 10.10.3 causes the terminal to freeze. The command that causes the issue is of the form:

awk -v path DIRECTORY -v now UNIX_TIMESTAMP

I'm not sure if the awk version changed, or what, but whenever I cd to a new directory, my shell dies. The culprit is on line 55 of z.sh.

[x3ro]

A workaround would be to install gnu-awk with homebrew (brew install gawk). The awk that comes w/ OS X seems to be from 2007 😦

[rupa]

I'd like to help, but I can't reproduce, and I have the same setup:

∃rupa∈wernstrom~$ sw_vers
 ProductName:   Mac OS X
 ProductVersion:    10.10.3
 BuildVersion:  14D136
∃rupa∈wernstrom~$ awk --version
 awk version 20070501

The problem must lie elsewhere. Any ideas?

[ntdaley]

I'm seeing something similar. Installing gnu awk did not seem to help.

sw_vers
ProductName: Mac OS X
ProductVersion: 10.11
BuildVersion: 15A284

awk --version
GNU Awk 4.1.3, API: 1.1

/usr/bin/awk --version
awk version 20070501

[ntdaley]

What I observe is that it becomes very slow to show the prompt after each command.

I did have several folders from a network share in my ~/.z file. Is it possible that there is something that is trying to look at the status/content of those folders? This could make it slow depending on the number of such folders in the ~/.z file and the speed of the network connection.

[ntdaley]

I also have a few folders in my ~/.z file whose name starts with a dash '-'. Could this be confusing something in _z? I know I often end up have to take special steps to stop shell commands from misinterpreting them.

[ntdaley]

Doing some experiments with a traffic shaping tool, it seemed to happen when the current directory is on a network mounted drive.

I know, no surprise. But, OS X's Terminal.app's inspector shows the awk command mentioned by the OP as running during that time.

That said, I'm pretty sure it has happened to me when the current directory wasn't on a network share.

[Tylerc230]

FWIW I was seeing some slowdown with z and 10.11.3 and installing gawk from homebrew and setting my path to export PATH="$(brew --prefix coreutils)/libexec/gnubin:/usr/local/bin:$PATH" did the trick. Not sure why simply setting my path to export PATH="/usr/local/bin/:$PATH" wouldn't pick up the newly installed awk.

[kespindler]

brew install gawk got z to work for me on OS X 10.11.5.

[grepsuzette]

I identified the exact same line "awk -v -path=...." as seeming to block my system but this time on ArchLinux. Or at least, awk is using something that blocks the IO. /usr/bin/awk points to /usr/bin/gawk. I also did suspect some network shares and investigate.

Otherwise I will try and disable the autocompletion to see if things get better.