[LUNA] simple(ton?) bash question ....

Paul F. Pearson pfpearson at mchsi.com
Fri Nov 21 15:00:19 CST 2014


----- "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam at hiwaay.net> wrote:

> *Booooyah* !!!! I now have:
> 
> [root at Q6600:/etc, Fri Nov 21, 02:25 PM] 1099 # function lltr10 () {
> lltr 
> "$*" | tail -10; }; export lltr10

Congrats on it working!

> 
> & if you make the "$*" into "$@" it works w/ a NULL arg list (as per
> man 
> 

Yup, "$@" is generally better. I didn't want to stray from your larger issue. 

> page, just checked) .... *hoooray* !!!! Thanks.

You're quite welcome. I kind of like shell scripting. 

------
Paul F. Pearson
We all laugh in the same language



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