Marijn Schouten (hkBst) wrote: >> http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/emacs/browser/emacs-overlay/eclass/xemacs-elisp-common.eclass > > You use $* and $@ here which are the same when unquoted. They should > probably be quoted and that means that all instances would become the four > characters "$@". > Yeah, that's definitely how to pass thru parameters in function calls.
<greybot> The difference between $@ and $*: without double quotes, none at all: both equal $1 $2 .... With double quotes, "$@" is "$1" "$2" ..., while "$*" is "$1c$2c..." (where c is the first character of $IFS). You almost always want "$@". So using "$*" maps to one string parameter. If you're calling a shell function you might not notice the difference (until you use a parameter with a space) using plain $* since the shell splits parameters to commands on characters in IFS. The point is, to deal with spaces in strings you need to use "$@". #bash is your friend (although some of the ops are way too grumpy ;) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
