Re: [Help-bash] How pass arguments to a command run by the -c option of bash?

[Ken Irving]

On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 11:01:45AM -0500, Peng Yu wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to run a command by the -c option. But 'a' is not passed to
> address@hidden Does anybody know what is correct way to pass the command
> arguments to a command run by the -c option of bash?
> 
> ~$ bash -c 'echo x $@' a b c
> x b c

    $ bash -c 'echo x $0 $@' a b c
    x a b c

>From bash(1):

       -c string If  the  -c  option  is  present, then commands are
                 read from string.  If there are arguments after the
                 string,  they  are assigned to the positional parameters,
                 starting with $0.

So,

    $ bash -c 'echo x $0 $@' a b c
    x a b c

Ken