On 06/13/16 03:06, Jonathan Callen wrote:
On 06/12/2016 11:54 AM, Andrew Lowe wrote:
On 06/12/16 23:07, Andrew Lowe wrote:
On 06/12/16 22:43, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On 12/06/2016 16:33, Nico Verrijdt wrote:
Hi Andrew,
2016-06-12 16:26 GMT+02:00 Andrew Lowe <a...@wht.com.au
<mailto:a...@wht.com.au>>:
Hi all,
A bit off topic here, but there are plenty of people who
seem to know their shells back to front so here goes.
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A better function for the same (that also doesn't loop forever because
the function might be calling itself):
npp() {
command npp "$@" &
}
This allows any number of arguments to be passed, instead of "exactly
one" and allows filenames containing spaces, etc. to be passed correctly.
Thanks, that's a nice little tweak.
Andrew