Re: [Refdb-users] to quote or not to quote (Curious refdbc -C "getref ..." behaviour)

[Marc H. <mar...@fr...>]

On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, Markus Hoenicka wrote:

> Unless I'm entirely confused, we're looking at the following:
>
> 1) refdbc -C getref -h
>
> refdbc displays the generic help and exits. This is documented and
> will not break by applying the patch

Ah OK. I naively thought that all arguments after the "-C command"
were ignored by refdbc and passed to the "command".

Just like I naively thought that:

 refdbc whatever -h whatever

 would syntax error. Of course, a syntax error could also...=A0display a
short help, as most tools do :-)



> 2) refdbc -C 'getref -h'
>
> refdbc displays the getref command help and exits. This is not
> documented, works nonetheless, but will break by applying the
> patch. "getref -h" is no known command, whereas "getref" is.

Thanks for the clarification.