"Paul A. Clarke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The man page states, for the "-c" option: > -c string If the -c option is present, then commands are read from > string. If there are arguments after the string, they are > assigned to the positional parameters, starting with $0. > I think the phrase "arguments after the string" is confusing in that the > "arguments" here are really still within "the string", not after.
bash -c 'printf %s\\n "$0" "$@"' arg0 arg1 arg2 arg3 "The string" refers to the part which, in this example, is single-quoted, and the arguments are indeed after that, not within it. > I'd suggest slightly different wording, such as: > "... If argments follow the respective commands within the string, they > are..." That would suggest to me that arguments in the place of %s\\n in my example are assigned to the positional parameters, which is not true. paul _______________________________________________ Bug-bash mailing list Bug-bash@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-bash
