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Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> posted |
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200904050401.19301.vapier@g.o, excerpted below, on Sun, 05 Apr |
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2009 04:01:18 -0400: |
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> what you've read/quoted matters at the expansion step, but that isnt |
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> what i'm talking about. i'm pointing out that the expansion is lost by |
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> assigning through the variable. thus the same behavior of the whole |
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> function is as if "$*" is used. |
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Makes sense now that your short form is expanded to explain the step I |
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missed. I /knew/ I must be missing the obvious as the simplest way to |
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take what you wrote was just /too/ obvious. Thanks. =:^) |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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