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From: "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>
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On Mon, 28 Apr 2003, Andreas Schwab wrote:

> "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com> writes:
>
> |> On Mon, 28 Apr 2003, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> |>
> |> > "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com> writes:
> |> >
> |> > |> The following is a "simple popem()', about as minimal as
> |> > |> you can get and have it work.
> |> >
> |> > Except it doesn't.
> |> >
> |> > |>     i = 0;
> |> > |>     args[i++] = "/bin/sh";
> |> > |>     args[i++] = "-c";
> |> > |>     args[i++] = strtok((char *)command, " ");
> |> > |>     for(; i< NR_ARGS; i++)
> |> > |>         if((args[i] = strtok(NULL, " ")) == NULL)
> |> > |>             break;
> |>
> |> Yes it does.
>
> $ sh -c echo a b c
>
> $ sh -c 'echo a b c'
> a b c
>
> Not what I call working.
>
> Andreas.

Read the bash documentation `man bash`. The first argument becomes
$0 (the process name), the second becomes $1, etc. Please  don't
just keep assuming that I don't know what I'm talking about.

$ sh -c 'ignore echo a b c'
Works fine.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.4.20 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips).
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