On Sun, 19 Mar 2006 03:02:51 +, Bob wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Mar 2006 20:44:17 -0500, Paul Jarc wrote:
>
>> Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> XXX='a "b c" d'
>>> for x in $XXX ; do
>>> echo $x
>>> done
>>
>> XXX='a "b c" d'
>> eval "set $XXX"
>> for x in "$@" ; do
>>
On Sat, 18 Mar 2006 20:44:17 -0500, Paul Jarc wrote:
> Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> XXX='a "b c" d'
>> for x in $XXX ; do
>> echo $x
>> done
>
> XXX='a "b c" d'
> eval "set $XXX"
> for x in "$@" ; do
> echo $x
> done
>
> If the first element in XXX might st
Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> XXX='a "b c" d'
> for x in $XXX ; do
> echo $x
> done
XXX='a "b c" d'
eval "set $XXX"
for x in "$@" ; do
echo $x
done
If the first element in XXX might start with "-", then it takes a
little more work to ensure it isn't misi
Hi, I hope it's OK to ask questions here (the Gnu Bash FAQ seems to say
it's OK).
Values in the variable $@ can be extracted in a for loop in a way to
preserve individual strings that may have white space. For example:
#!/bin/bash
for x in "$@" ; do
echo $x
