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Re: [Help-bash] A do nothing function


From: Bob Proulx
Subject: Re: [Help-bash] A do nothing function
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 15:16:49 -0600
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)

Greg Wooledge wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> > What would be likely to break?  It seems like six of one and a half
> > dozen of the other...
> 
> The original statement was that a function is more flexible, and less
> likely to break, than filter='some command'.  You can't put pipelines
> or complex quoted arguments into a command that's in a variable.  This
> is discussed in more detail at http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/050 .

Oh.  Okay.  Note that I didn't want to do any of those things.  :-)

I wouldn't say that it is likely to break.  It just doesn't do things
that it doesn't do.  And that I didn't want to do either.  (smile)

Bob



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