A byte stream of thoughts.
Apparently it was a while ago since I had troubles with infrastructure :), but this time it took too long to leave it unnoticed. Quite some time ago I have created several files in the subversion repository with the ‘|’ character in them, which gave problems checking them out on a Windows… ehm… box (if you can call Surface a box :)).
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Since Windows happen to be the platform of choice of my clients for business needs I tend to write also scripts for Windows. Many times I just create small batch files to mimic Unix commands like ls and ll as I forget to type dir instead. Anyway, many times I just want to pass any parameters provided to a batch file to the callee, and I used to have something like
@dir %1 %2 %3
Well, there should be a better way, and there is
@dir %*
and just in case you wander what other options are supported (and there are surprisingly many!), check out
call /?
in Windows command prompt, aka cme.exe.
Enjoy!