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Re: avoid eval?

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From: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: avoid eval?
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2018 17:43:57 -0700
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On 11/03/18 03:53 PM, Marc Chantreux wrote:

"$@" expands as an array and "$*" expands as a string so
func () cp oldfile "$*"

should probably do what you expect.

regards
marc

Thanks so it does. I tried that and 50 other ideas. I just nowrealized it was because I had $IFS=$'\n'


set in another function :-(  Cost me half the day.

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- Re: avoid eval?
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