On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 12:17:27PM +0930, Tom Cook wrote: | On 0, Squirrel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > | [implied question] | > | > What's the meaning of "echo $@"? | | So if a script just has 'echo $@' in it, then it is functionally | equivalent to 'echo' (except doesn't have the command line options, | obviously).
Not true -- the contents of $@ is expanded first, then sent to the command. If you want to be safe and ensure the the "data" isn't accidentally interpreted as arguments you need 'echo -- $@'. Test it out and see (also compare the differences between using ash and bash) : $ cat /tmp/echo.sh #!/bin/sh echo $@ $ /tmp/echo.sh -e 'bar\nfoo' -e bar foo $ /tmp/echo.sh 'bar\nfoo' bar foo $ cat /tmp/echo.sh #!/bin/bash echo $@ $ /tmp/echo.sh 'bar\nfoo' bar\nfoo $ /tmp/echo.sh -e 'bar\nfoo' bar foo $ -D -- (E)ventually (M)allocs (A)ll (C)omputer (S)torage GnuPG key : http://dman.ddts.net/~dman/public_key.gpg
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