Re: shell gurus needed ...

[Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>]

On Mit, 02 Mai 2007, Norbert Preining wrote:
>     printf "Building format(s) $@. This may take some time... "

Aehmm, stupid me ... from man bash
       @      Expands to the positional parameters, starting from  one.  When
              the  expansion  occurs  within  double  quotes,  each parameter
              expands to a separate word.  That is, "$@" is equivalent to "$1"
              "$2"  ...  

So this is bad. I resolved it as follows:
    tmp="Building format(s) $@. This may take some time... "
    printf "$tmp"

Better suggestions?

Best wishes

Norbert

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