Dr Nic

Never fear $ in READMEs again

Ever see example shell commands like this and wish you could paste them in?

Fear no more. A pastie is at hand.

Here’s how to install it:

In your `.bash_profile` add the following:

Thanks

@dwaite and others for `$@` instead of `$0 $1 …`.

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3 Responses to “Never fear $ in READMEs again”

Dr Nic says:

June 11, 2011 at 1:42 am

Christian Neukirchen suggested
```
#!/bin/sh
eval "$@"
```
… but that runs each line in its own shell.
Dr Nic Williams says:

June 11, 2011 at 1:46 am

Hmm… I think Christian makes an annoyingly good point:
```
$ export FOO=foo
$ echo $FOO
```
When it should print `foo`.
```
export FOO=foo
$ echo $FOO
foo
```
dgm says:

June 11, 2011 at 2:14 am

That’s why my always open text editor has a “column select”