In message <ib0kor01...@news5.newsguy.com>, Chris Torek wrote:
> ['/bin/sh', '-c', 'echo', '$MYVAR']
>
> (with arguments expressed as a Python list). /bin/sh takes the
> string after '-c' as a command, and the remaining argument(s) if
> any are assigned to positional parameters ($0, $1, etc).
Doesn’t work. I don’t know what happens to the extra arguments, but they
just seem to be ignored if -c is specified.
sh -c 'echo hi'
echoes “hi”, while
sh -c echo hi
just outputs a blank line.
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