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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting problem with spaces and argument parsing Post 302152228 by fabulous2 on Wednesday 19th of December 2007 04:28:40 AM
Old 12-19-2007
Maybe this is a unix variant problem.

On cygwin, when I use
Code:
\"gdb\ -\ %p\"

I see a single space (" ") in echo's output. But the java command fails because the script is still interpreting the above line as 3 separate arguments instead of a single one, so the java command thinks that it is receiving a bogus option named "-".

On linux (2.6.9-022stab070.9-enterprise), the echo output is again correct, but the overall command fails due to a different error. Hmm...
 

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scalap(1)							   USER COMMANDS							 scalap(1)

NAME
scalap - Scala class file decoder for the Scala 2 language SYNOPSIS
scalap [ <options> ] <class name> PARAMETERS
<options> Command line options. See OPTIONS below. <class name> Full-qualified name of a class to be decoded (such as hello.HelloWorld). DESCRIPTION
The scalap tool reads a class file generated by theScala compiler, and displays object and class definitions. By default, scalap looks for the given class file in the current directory. You can specify a separate classpath with -classpath (see OPTIONS, below). OPTIONS
The decoder has a set of standard options that are supported on the current development environment and will be supported in future releases. Standard Options -help Display this usage message. -private Print private definitions. -verbose Print out additional information. -version Print product version and exit. -cp | -classpath Specify where to find user class files. EXAMPLES
Display definitions for a generated class file scalap hello.HelloWorld EXIT STATUS
scalap returns a zero exist status if it succeeds to process the specified input files. Non zero is returned in case of failure. AUTHOR
Written by Ilya Sergey. REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to http://lampsvn.epfl.ch/trac/scala. COPYRIGHT
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