From: Mike Castle <dalgoda@ix.netcom.com>
To: Jeffrey Holle <jeff.holle@verizon.net>
Cc: linux-console@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: feeding a script from standard input
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 23:30:16 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040129073016.GA370@thune.mrc-home.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bv96ha$88v$1@sea.gmane.org>
On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 12:34:17PM -0800, Jeffrey Holle wrote:
> Thanks for this, works without the quotes!
Better to use "$@".
Otherwise if you do something like *.foo and any of those names has spaces
in it, it would fail. Only "$@" will get that case right.
Even the people who designed that feature call it magic.
mrc
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Mike Castle dalgoda@ix.netcom.com www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/
We are all of us living in the shadow of Manhattan. -- Watchmen
fatal ("You are in a maze of twisty compiler features, all different"); -- gcc
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-29 7:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-27 6:04 feeding a script from standard input Jeffrey Holle
2004-01-28 14:05 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2004-01-28 20:34 ` Jeffrey Holle
2004-01-29 7:30 ` Mike Castle [this message]
2004-01-30 15:30 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
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