X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 22:04:28 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Peshansky Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Poor Yorick cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: bash -c behavior In-Reply-To: <4403BA05.2070008@pooryorick.com> Message-ID: References: <4403BA05.2070008@pooryorick.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII; FORMAT=flowed Content-ID: Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Mon, 27 Feb 2006, Poor Yorick wrote: > Greetings, Cygwin users, > > From a terminal: > > yorick@yorickp1 ~ yorickp1 21:43:48 > $bash -c "echo $1" yada > > yorick@yorickp1 ~ yorickp1 21:43:52 > $bash -c "echo $*" bright sunshiny day > > yorick@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. HTH, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu | igor@watson.ibm.com ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac" -- 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/