On Tuesday 19 October 2004 09:33, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: > >>That's wrong. If /tmp/tmp-sms contains multiple lines then sendsms > >>would be invoked separatly for each one of them. > You are right - multiple lines will result in multiple command line > arguments, not necessarily > > multiple invocations.
Hmmm... interesting. Look at that input: $ cat /tmp/t me "Shlomo" "hello there, how are you" It's a multiline [but properly quoted] message. Let's try xargs: $ xargs cat < /tmp/t xargs: unmatched double quote And now let's try my prior suggestion: $ eval cat "`cat /tmp/t`" cat: me: No such file or directory cat: Shlomo: No such file or directory cat: hello there, how are you: No such file or directory See how cat(1) got exactly the wanted 3 arguments? Seems like I just won the bash-judo :-) -- Oron Peled Voice/Fax: +972-4-8228492 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.actcom.co.il/~oron ICQ UIN: 16527398 The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners - Ernst Jan Plugge ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
