From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 25 18:40:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from corten2.billschoolcraft.com (adsl-63-193-247-201.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.193.247.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5379F37B405 for ; Tue, 25 Sep 2001 18:40:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from corten8.billschoolcraft.com ([192.168.7.8]) by corten2.billschoolcraft.com with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1 (Debian)) id 13djhS-0003n0-00 for ; Mon, 25 Sep 2000 18:38:26 -0700 Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 18:35:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Bill Schoolcraft X-X-Sender: To: Subject: Re: Shell argument limits at $9 ?? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: System-ID: SunOS 5.8 i86pc MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 25 Sep 2001 it looks like Gary W. Swearingen composed: swear->You might even consider always using ${} for ALL variable substitution. swear-> swear->It's a little harder to type but easier to search for (fewer mis-finds, swear->esp. with small names) and reduces incentive to follow tradition of swear->using all caps for envars. It's debatable whether it's easier or harder swear->to read, but more lower and mixed case probably helps readablity. swear-> You can count on that. I spent a few good minutes just saying "&#^$%@**" when I saw how easy that was. Thanks for the email. -- Bill Schoolcraft | PO Box 210076 San Francisco, CA 94121 http://ForwardSlashUnix.com "UNIX, A Way of Life." rm -rf /bin/laden To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message