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Top Forums Programming command line arguments Post 97770 by jim mcnamara on Thursday 2nd of February 2006 10:12:43 AM
Old 02-02-2006
Code:
kcsdev:/home/jmcnama> cat a.c
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
        int i;
        for (i=0;i<=argc;i++) printf("%s\n", argv[i]);
        return 0;
}
kcsdev:/home/jmcnama>cc a.c
kcsdev:/home/jmcnama> a.out "simple test" "b" '"'
a.out
simple test
b
"
kcsdev:/home/jmcnama> a.out "simple test" "b" \"
a.out
simple test
b
"

M -
This is a shell question ,not a C question, IMO.
 

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