Thien-Thi Nguyen wrote:
> () Akim Demaille <[email protected]>
> () Fri, 6 Jul 2012 16:40:37 +0200
>
> But we have to worry about ',' in $me, which is $0, not
> its basename. Do you want me (Akim, not the variable)
> to change me (the variable, not Akim; not that I am
> immutable) to basename and use / in the sed command,
> instead of ','?
>
> # warnf_ FORMAT-STRING ARG1...
> warnf_ ()
> {
> warnf_format_=$1
> shift
> printf "$warnf_format_" "$@" | sed "s,^,$me: ," >&2
> }
>
> Instead of these contortions, what about:
>
> printf "%s: $warnf_format" "$me" "$@"
>
> ?
Hi Thien-Thi,
We want warnf '%s\n' a b c d
to print this (as printf would do):
$me: a
$me: b
$me: c
$me: d
With that added "%s: ", and with "$me" inserted into the
list of arguments, we'd get this:
$me: a
b: c
d: $me
