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From: dce@sony.com (David Elliott)
Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug
Subject: Re: Bug report: quoted strings passed to functions
Message-ID: <1989Nov18.225449.6969@sony.com>
Date: 18 Nov 89 22:54:49 GMT
References: <1989Nov13.054213.24296@rpi.edu> <1989Nov13.162429.12744@sony.com> <1989Nov13.233322.15607@rpi.edu>
Reply-To: dce@icky.Sony.COM (David Elliott)
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In article <1989Nov13.233322.15607@rpi.edu> night@pawl.rpi.edu (Trip Martin) writes:
>In <1989Nov13.162429.12744@sony.com> dce@icky.Sony.COM (David Elliott) writes:
>>	grep() { egrep "$@" ; }

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

Exactly.

Sorry.  The problem is that there seems to be another bug in
bash, in which "$@" is treated incorrectly.  I apologize for
not testing my example carefully when I posted.  This bug was
discovered a couple of days later.

Sadly, without "$@" working correctly, I don't know of a simple
way to do what you want (does bash have aliases?).
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