On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 03:28:53PM -0500, Frank M. Ramaekers alleged: > >The first line in your function is only logging its first argument, not > >all arguments; and since you pass $line unquoted, the first word is the > >first argument. > > > >You could either quote $line: ``LogIt "$line"'', or use all arguments > in > >LogIt: ``Msg="$@"''. > > > >-- > >Garrick Staples, GNU/Linux HPCC SysAdmin > >University of Southern California > > > >09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 > > That makes sense now...I didn't realize the difference...thanks! So now that that makes sense to you, let me say that you should use both solutions :) Quoting $line ensures that special meta-characters aren't expanded. For example, if $line contained a *, then the shell could expand it with files in the current directory. And using $@ instead of $1 in LogIt is just more flexible and is closer to your actual intention of "log everything I pass on this line." -- Garrick Staples, GNU/Linux HPCC SysAdmin University of Southern California 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20070509/70eb8bf5/attachment-0004.sig>