[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> Take a look at the approach in the following example script. `recho' is
>> part of the bash distribution; it's built while running the test suite.
>> I used `ls -1' to create a newline-delimited list of filenames.
>>
>> $ cat x3
>> [ -d scratch ] || mkdir scratch
>> cd scratch
>> touch 'a b w' 'c d x' 'e f y' 'g h z'
>>
>> IFS=$'\n'
>> recho $(ls -1 *)
>> $ ../bash-3.2/bash ./x3
>> argv[1] = <a b w>
>> argv[2] = <c d x>
>> argv[3] = <e f y>
>> argv[4] = <g h z>
>>
>
> Easier is just:
>
> ls -1 *
>
> Why not give an example which effectively does "vi `grep -l PATTERN *`"?
> Your example isn't of any use.
OK, one last try. Replace `recho' with `vi', and `ls -1' with
`grep -l PATTERN'. Then take a deep breath and think about what
the output of `recho' says about how the output of the command
substitution was split.
Chet
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Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
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