On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 01:57:59PM -0700, Linda A. W. wrote: > The only thing I would have as a problem in "$@" is if I had double > quotes in a file name somewhere.
That should work too for shell scripts, but the problem is that "xargs" doesn't cope with it (because the quote processing follows the POSIX specification):- [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/source/misc/tmp$ cat show-quoted.sh #! /bin/sh i=0 for arg; do echo $((i++)) "[$arg]"; done echo ALL: "$@" [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/source/misc/tmp$ sh show-quoted.sh a "'b" " d " Ee ' "F"" ' 0 [a] 1 ['b] 2 [ d ] 3 [Ee] 4 [ "F"" ] ALL: a 'b d Ee "F"" [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/source/misc/tmp$ echo a "'b" " d " Ee ' "F"" ' | xargs echo xargs: unmatched single quote; by default quotes are special to xargs unless you use the -0 option > So then -print0/-0 seem to be the best options for passing > filenames... Yes, that's certainly true. James. _______________________________________________ Bug-findutils mailing list Bug-findutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-findutils
