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Re: bash -c behavior
- From: Igor Peshansky <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: Poor Yorick <com dot cygwin dot cygwin at pooryorick dot com>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 22:04:28 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: bash -c behavior
- References: <4403BA05.2070008@pooryorick.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot 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
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