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 ...
Regards,
Stefano
