Bash question

[Master of Reality]

if i wanted to echo the arguments in a command and needed it to change my to your, and myself to yourself, mine to yours, etc, and vice versa. What would i have to do?
i know to echo the arguments a ijust put echo $*.
Should i be reading the bash man page?

[Void Main]

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echo $* | sed s/my/your/ig


Is using sed cheating?

[Master of Reality]

now, why doesnt it work if i put it more then once:

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echo $* | sed /s/my/your/ig | sed /s/my/your/ig

[Void Main]

Get rid of the leading "/", but why do you need the same thing twice? My example acounts for both my->your and myself->yourself.

[Master of Reality]

d'oh... well i willl have to add mine <-> yours and i will have to put you/me and me/you (i need it to go both ways)

[Master of Reality]

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#!/bin/bash

echo "I'm sorry $USER, but I can't  do that. I don't think it is a good idea to
$*." | sed s/my/your/ig | sed s/mine/yours/ig | sed s/me/you/ig

hehehe

[Void Main]

But a "sed s/you/me/ig | sed s/me/you/ig" will not do what you want. That is, if there is a "you" in your params it will be changed to "me" and then back to "you". Same goes for all the others yours->mine->yours etc. Seems like a waste of CPU to me. :) Actually that's only half right. It would work the way you want if you had a "me" in your params but not if you had a "you" in your params.