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From: night@pawl.rpi.edu (Trip Martin)
Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug
Subject: Re: Bug report: quoted strings passed to functions
Message-ID: <1989Nov13.233322.15607@rpi.edu>
Date: 18 Nov 89 13:49:15 GMT
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In <1989Nov13.162429.12744@sony.com> dce@icky.Sony.COM (David Elliott) writes:
>The bug is in the use of $*, not bash.  This is a common problem, caused
>by a flaw in the design of the original sh.
>
>Change that to
>
>	grep() { egrep "$@" ; }
>
>and it will work as expected.

It doesn't work as expected.  When I tried it, egrep waited for input
from stdin.  

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