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From: | "Dave Korn" <dave DOT korn AT artimi DOT com> |
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Subject: | RE: bash -c behavior |
Date: | Tue, 28 Feb 2006 11:13:00 -0000 |
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On 28 February 2006 03:04, Igor Peshansky wrote: > On Mon, 27 Feb 2006, Poor Yorick wrote: > >> Greetings, Cygwin users, >> >> From a terminal: >> >> yorick AT yorickp1 ~ yorickp1 21:43:48 >> $bash -c "echo $1" yada >> >> yorick AT yorickp1 ~ yorickp1 21:43:52 >> $bash -c "echo $*" bright sunshiny day >> >> yorick AT yorickp1 ~ yorickp1 21:45:54 >> >> Shouldn't I have gotten some results on stdout? > > Try > > $ bash -c 'echo $1' bash yada > $ bash -c 'echo /$0/ $*' a bright sunshiny day > > A perusal of the "quoting" section of the bash man page might be > particularly instructive. Or, to cast the answer in the same terms as the original: dk AT rainbow /win/c> bash -c "echo \$1" yada dk AT rainbow /win/c> bash -c "echo \$1" yada YAyada YAyada dk AT rainbow /win/c> bash -c "echo \$*" bright sunshiny day sunshiny day dk AT rainbow /win/c> cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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