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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Can someone interpret this -- not sure Post 302419524 by alister on Friday 7th of May 2010 11:58:33 AM
Old 05-07-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by Straitsfan
I mean a directory with just that more than one word in its name -- say, for example my\ documents/ as opposed to just documents/
It's not more than one word if you quote it. In that case, there is no field splitting done and it will always be one word (word in the bash man page sense) which happens to contain a space.


Quote:
Originally Posted by hergp
In this special case there is no effective difference between "$*" and "$@", because in bash the cd builtin accepts only one argument, the name of the directory you want to change to.
That is absolutely incorrect. If there are multiple arguments passed to a script or function, the double-quoted values "$*" and "$@" will ALWAYS differ. The former will always expand to one string, the latter to multiple strings.

If this function were called with two arguments, for example, it would try to cd into a directory named "$1" (as you pointed out, bash's built-in cd would ignore $2 and any other arguments). However, if the code were using "$*" instead, the bash builtin would be passed a single argument whose value would be "$1 $2". Definitely, not the same.

In this case, what is equivalent is the use "$@" and "$1", since bash's cd will ignore all other arguments.

Regards,
Alister
 

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RBASH(1)						      General Commands Manual							  RBASH(1)

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rbash - restricted bash, see bash(1) RESTRICTED SHELL
If bash is started with the name rbash, or the -r option is supplied at invocation, the shell becomes restricted. A restricted shell is used to set up an environment more controlled than the standard shell. It behaves identically to bash with the exception that the follow- ing are disallowed or not performed: o changing directories with cd o setting or unsetting the values of SHELL, PATH, ENV, or BASH_ENV o specifying command names containing / o specifying a file name containing a / as an argument to the . builtin command o specifying a filename containing a slash as an argument to the -p option to the hash builtin command o importing function definitions from the shell environment at startup o parsing the value of SHELLOPTS from the shell environment at startup o redirecting output using the >, >|, <>, >&, &>, and >> redirection operators o using the exec builtin command to replace the shell with another command o adding or deleting builtin commands with the -f and -d options to the enable builtin command o using the enable builtin command to enable disabled shell builtins o specifying the -p option to the command builtin command o turning off restricted mode with set +r or set +o restricted. These restrictions are enforced after any startup files are read. When a command that is found to be a shell script is executed, rbash turns off any restrictions in the shell spawned to execute the script. SEE ALSO
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