various fixes

[distro-setup] / brc

diff --git a/brc b/brc
index 33e664616c36487ad7f0b426e6d3c25e303eea3f..9e368d471a21a93ec3d4786e2513c0f442f5be5f 100644 (file)
--- a/brc
+++ b/brc
@@ -424,10 +424,25 @@ dus() { # du, sorted, default arg of
 
 e() { echo "$@"; }
 
-# echo var. print var including escapes, etc
+# echo args
+ea() {
+  if (( ! $# )); then
+    echo no args
+  fi
+  for arg; do
+    printf "%qEOL\n" "${arg}"
+    printf "%s" "${arg}" |& hexdump -C
+  done
+}
+# echo vars. print var including escapes, etc
 ev() {
-  printf "%qEOL\n" "${!1}"
-  printf "%s" "${!1}" |& hexdump -C
+  if (( ! $# )); then
+    echo no args
+  fi
+  for arg; do
+    printf "%qEOL\n" "${!arg}"
+    printf "%s" "${!arg}" |& hexdump -C
+  done
 }