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Re: [BUG?] run.exe and pdflatex


On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 12:13:59AM +0100, Sven K?hler wrote:
>> bash -c "exec /bin/echo \$@" some arguments here
>> 
>> and see what's printed; then read the bash man page for why this happens).
>
>Oh, that possibility was new to me.
>
>All i wonder, is why the "some" gets lost. Only "arguments here" is
>printed. And actually i would like to argue, that "$@" instead of $@
>should be used.

Because, as on linux, the arguments are taken to be argv[0 - 2].

bash -c "exec /bin/echo \"\$0\" \"\$@\""

will get you all of the arguments.

cgf

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