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 "%@"; }
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