[gentoo-user] [SOLVED]Re: [A bit off-topic] Bash alias and &

[Andrew Lowe]

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 <agl@×××××××.au
>>>>> <mailto:agl@×××××××.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):
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> 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