Answer by J G Miller for Prevent parameter expansion in shell script
You need to familiarize yourself with the basic rules concerning shell expansion of variables. NAME="start" IF you present $NAME to the shell it will be exanded to the string start If you put single...
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I've demonstrated the problem here: $ pie() { echo $1; }; pie '*' 1 2 3 4 5 file Expanded. Bother. But the solution is quite simple. You just need to quote it but in a way that bash will understand. We...
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I often have to do a recursive search in files. Tired of typing the whole "find/grep" combination all the time, I just created a script with the following line: find . -name $1 -exec grep $2 {} +...
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