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Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:34:12 +0200
From: Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid>
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Subject: Re: gdb hijacks my argument list
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Date: 2010-01-05T19:34:12+02:00
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Leslie wrote:
> Niklas Holsti wrote:
> 
>> gdb --args testtoken ' (name testtoken endchar \) <
>>> testtoken.adb | (trace) count lines|cons '
> 
> I get exactly the same result as before:
> ==================================
> gdb --args testtoken ' (name testtoken endchar \) <
> testtoken.adb | (trace) count lines|cons '
...
> This GDB was configured as "i586-suse-linux"...
> testtoken: No such file or directory.

Well, perhaps GDB is right and there is no such file?

Looking more carefully at your original question, at the attached 
terminal session, it seems that your program is really named 
"testcmdline", not "testtoken":

 > 15:49:35 turriff@pinto
 > ~/Documents/SourceCode$
 > ./testcmdline 'with an arbitrary command string'
 > with an arbitrary command string

Perhaps you should use

   gdb --args testcmdline ' (name testtoken endchar \) <
   testtoken.adb | (trace) count lines|cons '

The GDB command "set args" as suggested by John Matthews is also a good 
method, and the one I have used until now.

-- 
Niklas Holsti
Tidorum Ltd
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