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Re: a quick tip that sometimes saves a lot of further worries

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Greg Wooledge wrote:
...
> The ./ breaks the function if you give it absolute pathnames.  Replace
> this last line with cat -- "$arg" instead.
>
> A "clever" version of this part of the function that does something
> similar in a more compact form is:
>
> tail -n +1 -- "$@"
>
> I didn't write that and can't claim credit for it, but I don't know who
> did, so I can't give appropriate credit either.

  we all can be clever in different ways.  :)

  i'm usually pretty good at doing things oddly enough
that i make a good test subject.

  tks, i'll stash this reply too...


  songbird

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a quick tip that sometimes saves a lot of further worries songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2018-10-25 18:10 +0200
  Re: a quick tip that sometimes saves a lot of further worries Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> - 2018-10-25 21:20 +0200
    Re: a quick tip that sometimes saves a lot of further worries Étienne Mollier <etienne.mollier@mailoo.org> - 2018-10-25 21:30 +0200
      Re: a quick tip that sometimes saves a lot of further worries Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-10-25 21:40 +0200
        Re: a quick tip that sometimes saves a lot of further worries Étienne Mollier <etienne.mollier@mailoo.org> - 2018-10-25 21:50 +0200
        Re: a quick tip that sometimes saves a lot of further worries songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2018-10-26 05:10 +0200
      Re: a quick tip that sometimes saves a lot of further worries songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2018-10-26 05:10 +0200
    Re: a quick tip that sometimes saves a lot of further worries songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2018-10-26 00:00 +0200

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