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Re: [Help-bash] A do nothing function
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Bob Proulx |
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Re: [Help-bash] A do nothing function |
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Fri, 28 Sep 2012 15:16:49 -0600 |
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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
Re: [Help-bash] A do nothing function, Davide Brini, 2012/09/27