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Re: bash -c behavior


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
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