> Then why don't you post that?
Please take a look and see if you have a better solution than the
following code without using quotearg.sh.
/tmp/tmp$ ll *
c d:
total 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 pengy wheel 0 2011-11-15 20:18:11 xx
a b:
total 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 pengy wheel 0 2011-11-15 20:18:15 yy
/tmp/tmp$ ../c
On Tue, 15 Nov 2011, Peng Yu wrote:
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 6:43 PM, Chris F.A. Johnson
wrote:
On Tue, 15 Nov 2011, Peng Yu wrote:
In any case, combining a command and its arguments in a single
string is almost always the wrong way to go about it.
Please compare the two scripts and s
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 6:43 PM, Chris F.A. Johnson
wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Nov 2011, Peng Yu wrote:
>
>>> In any case, combining a command and its arguments in a single
>>> string is almost always the wrong way to go about it.
>>
>> Please compare the two scripts and see if the second one makes
On Tue, 15 Nov 2011, Peng Yu wrote:
In any case, combining a command and its arguments in a single
string is almost always the wrong way to go about it.
Please compare the two scripts and see if the second one makes more sense.
/tmp$ cat not_convert_args_to_string.sh
#!/bin/bash
option
> In any case, combining a command and its arguments in a single
> string is almost always the wrong way to go about it.
Please compare the two scripts and see if the second one makes more sense.
/tmp$ cat not_convert_args_to_string.sh
#!/bin/bash
options="$2"
find $1 $options
echo find $1
On Tue, 15 Nov 2011, Peng Yu wrote:
Why not use the array instead of making it into a single string?
$cmd "${args[@]}"
Why are you using eval or quotearg.sh? It sounds as if you are
making the process more complicated than it need be.
For the examples that I gave, probably it is not ne
> Why not use the array instead of making it into a single string?
>
> $cmd "${args[@]}"
>
> Why are you using eval or quotearg.sh? It sounds as if you are
> making the process more complicated than it need be.
For the examples that I gave, probably it is not necessary.
I'm yet to make a co
On Tue, 15 Nov 2011, Peng Yu wrote:
Hi,
I find that I have to make a program quotearg.sh to convert an array
to a string by quoting each element. So that it be used for eval.
I'm not sure if there is a way that I can do eval in bash without
having to use quotearg.sh. If there is no such a way,
Hi,
I find that I have to make a program quotearg.sh to convert an array
to a string by quoting each element. So that it be used for eval.
I'm not sure if there is a way that I can do eval in bash without
having to use quotearg.sh. If there is no such a way, should
quotearg.sh be added in bash (i
