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Subject: Re: types "quad_t" & "u_quad_t"
From: Hannu E K Nevalainen <_garbage_collector_ AT telia DOT com>
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Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 20:02:31 +0100
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On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 15:38 -0800, Brian Dessent wrote:
> Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote:
> 
> > $ cat >>.profile <<EOD
> > 
> > function od() {
> >   if [ -r "$1" ] ;then
replace with:
      if [ -z "$1" ] || [ -r "$1" ] ; then
for pipe-functionality using my special arguments.

...or rebuild this with "case ;... ;esac" instead...

> >     argline="-A x -v -t x1z -w24 $1"
> >   else
> >     # Problem with dual evaluation on argline?
> >     argline="$*"

replace with "$@" here, at your preference, which IMO should be a better default.
Read more after typing:

$ man bash
/Special parameters

> >   fi
> >   command od $argline
> >   argline=
> > }
> > EOD
> 
> That doesn't work so well if you ever need to do "od file1 file2" or
> "(some command) | od".  In the former case you only get the first file
> and in the latter you don't get the options passed.
> 
> Brian

Note 1: You stripped out the <UNTESTED/> - i.e. my note to you that
there likely was things that didn't work as you would have expected.

Note 2:
Did you find the behavior you pointed out hard to change? I didn't. 

And last: You got what you paid for as usual.

-- 
Hannu E K Nevalainen <_garbage_collector_ KRINGLA telia.com>


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