From: Phil Pennock <phil@athenaeum.demon.co.uk>
To: tgape@cyberramp.net
Cc: schaefer@brasslantern.com, zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: Docs fix
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 04:05:54 +0000 (GMT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199810270405.EAA01558@athenaeum.demon.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199810262202.WAA06805@dal-tsa33-1.cyberramp.net> from TGAPE! at "Oct 26, 98 10:02:44 pm"
Typing away merrily, TGAPE! produced the immortal words:
> Btw, can you show even *one* case where a csh user really wants $*
> functionality and not "$@"? And, even if $* by default acted exactly
> like "$@", it's a good idea to script so as to be complient with as many
Sure. A wrapper around an su command, for instance, which takes a
single argument for -c ... or anything else where a command wants a
shell sequence as one arg, but your csh-alias/*sh-func should just stick
all args after the nth into that. I'm fairly sure I have something like
that knocking around somewhere.
--
--> Phil Pennock ; GAT d- s+:+ a22 C++(++++) UL++++/I+++/S+++/H+ P++@ L+++
E-@ W(+) N>++ o !K w--- O>+ M V !PS PE Y+ PGP+ t-- 5++ X+ R !tv b++>+++ DI+ D+
G+ e+ h* !r y?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-10-27 4:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-10-26 23:03 Phil Pennock
1998-10-26 23:53 ` Bart Schaefer
1998-10-27 1:25 ` Zoltan Hidvegi
1998-10-27 2:27 ` Bart Schaefer
1998-10-26 22:02 ` TGAPE!
1998-10-27 4:05 ` Phil Pennock [this message]
1998-10-27 4:21 ` Bart Schaefer
1998-10-27 5:13 ` Zoltan Hidvegi
1998-10-28 4:53 ` Bart Schaefer
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