On Thursday 18 August 2011, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > Hi Eric. > > On Thursday 18 August 2011, Eric Blake wrote: > > On 08/18/2011 08:44 AM, Eric Blake wrote: > > >> how do I write a function that would print the same as > > >> $ \ls | cat > > > > Useless use of cat. This can be done with \ls -1. > > > > > f(){ for a in "$@"; do echo "$a"; done; } > > > > Or skip the loop altogether: > > > > f(){ printf %s\\n "%@"; } > > > I think you've made a typo here; it should have been: > > f () { printf %s\\n "$@"; } > > I guess that's what you meant, right? > > BTW, is this behaviour truly portable to other shells and/or printf > utilities? POSIX seems to require it to portable, but you never > know ... > Sorry, I've seen Roman's answer just now; feel free to ignore my mail.
Sorry for the noise, Stefano