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From: Aron Griffis <agriffis@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev <gentoo-dev@gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] add a "beep" to Portage
Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 15:20:44 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021215202044.GC6634@time> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021213132505.GA5029@endlessrecursion.net>

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Bob Phan wrote:[Fri Dec 13 2002, 08:25:05AM EST]
> function emerge {
>     /usr/bin/emerge $@; echo -e \\7
> }

Note this should be "$@", not bare $@ if you want to preserve quoting of
the original args.  This is a common mistake in shell scripting.

Ref "man bash", /^ *\@

Aron

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  reply	other threads:[~2002-12-15 20:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-12-12 16:52 [gentoo-dev] add a "beep" to Portage Bob Thomas
2002-12-12 18:43 ` Gustavo Felisberto
2002-12-12 18:59   ` Bob Thomas
2002-12-13 13:25     ` Bob Phan
2002-12-15 20:20       ` Aron Griffis [this message]
2002-12-14 16:31     ` Karsten Schulz

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