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Re: types "quad_t" & "u_quad_t"
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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