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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
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