Comments on: go juggle — an attention callback http://michael-mccracken.net/2008/08/go-juggle-an-attention-callback/ This is a weblog Sun, 25 Mar 2012 04:06:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Mike http://michael-mccracken.net/2008/08/go-juggle-an-attention-callback/comment-page-1/#comment-391 Mike Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:12:50 +0000 http://michael-mccracken.net/wp/?p=119#comment-391 <p>Wow, I thought I'd replied. Thanks for the tip, Ivan - I've been using a version with your change since you wrote.</p> Wow, I thought I’d replied. Thanks for the tip, Ivan – I’ve been using a version with your change since you wrote.

]]> By: Ivan Andrus http://michael-mccracken.net/2008/08/go-juggle-an-attention-callback/comment-page-1/#comment-393 Ivan Andrus Mon, 01 Sep 2008 19:20:22 +0000 http://michael-mccracken.net/wp/?p=119#comment-393 <p>It looks like the system swallowed my asterisks (thinking that I wanted italics). Oops. That should be $*</p> It looks like the system swallowed my asterisks (thinking that I wanted italics). Oops. That should be $*

]]> By: Ivan Andrus http://michael-mccracken.net/2008/08/go-juggle-an-attention-callback/comment-page-1/#comment-392 Ivan Andrus Mon, 01 Sep 2008 19:19:08 +0000 http://michael-mccracken.net/wp/?p=119#comment-392 <p>You probably want to be using "$@" which will quote each of the individual arguments thereby preserving the command that you wanted to run. What you don't want to do is "$<em>" (which quotes all of the arguments as one big command), or $</em>/$@ (which does no quoting).</p> <p>HTH, Ivan</p> You probably want to be using “$@” which will quote each of the individual arguments thereby preserving the command that you wanted to run. What you don’t want to do is “$” (which quotes all of the arguments as one big command), or $/$@ (which does no quoting).

HTH, Ivan

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